May 29 some musings about counting and time

Warm today in Austin Texas
The weather people say occasional showers are due over the next few
days. The sky looks dark, so it is certainly likely.

Observing local flowers, I have seen no bees of any kind.  On the other hand,
people don't seem to plant a great many flowering plants.  The most common seems
to be the red yucca. It has a very narrow flower spike and the small red flowers
are currently blooming.


Today
I added a new time page and a page devoted to how Fred Flintstone figured out how to count.
I have seen methods which several primitive societies developed.  But the use of 12 and 60
are the two systems used by most of the western societies.

I think the idea of a base ten has little or nothing to do with Fred Flintstone type people.
See my pages for my point of view.

May 28

Ok, I have been traveling. I visited Wichita Kansas and checked to see the vegetation in the area. Moved on to Austin Texas.

My daughter has an apartment in Austin and luckily she has access to the grounds with a nearly limitless source of Tillandsia recurvata.   I will see if I can help her sell the stuff. Most people in the area view the plant as trash, so picking it up is no problem.

Some experts say the Austin area never has temperatures lower than freezing. Yet other experts say the temperatures do drop below freezing for a very few nights per year.  Other experts say freezing temperatures will nearly instantly kill Tillandsia while other experts claim a short term freezing temperature will not kill the plant. 

Hard to know which expert to believe. 

I may set up a max/min thermometer to check the actual range.  Then if I notice Tillandsia is killed or survived, we will have some real data.