Evolutionary adaptation to environmental change

From: "Ron Iles" roniles at eircom.net> on 2002.12.24 at 14:27:36(9746) May You all celebrate your Holydays & the Gift of Life in the most Wonderful & Loving of Ways. So at this particular time, a really Happy Christmas. Here, Windows has been changed from Millenium to XP & so far many email addresses are inaccessible. If friends could send me their current em addresses I would appreciate it. I have moved to a simple ranch type home in a breathtakingly beautiful very warm valley near Glengarriff, jewel of West Cork. It is in the caldera of an extinct volcano with high mountains, rhododendrons, lakes & torrential waterfalls all around, entered through the glorious Beara State Forest, a dramatic & masjestic place where reign Spirits of Dinosaurs & one senses watching Leprechauns & the Red Deer. So, like the vanishing Jungle, Life changes, one learns & one adapts & moves on & I learned greatly from working for & with the IAS in its 24th-25th Year. Priorities & limitations now force me to shed the treasured World Spathiphyllum Collection. Secure "arks" are needed. Some, including a few species new to Botany probably & sports need to be micro-propagated. For me simple Peace Lilies are exquisite, elegant, divinely scented which is maybe why they are universal house plants but being understated, not obvious, maybe under-rated & sometimes overlooked by aroid cognoscenti. So - Thank you to the band of loyal & true friends with whom I shared concordantly. One passionately hopes for the Planet to be more & more a Peaceful Joyful Home for all its diversity in 2003. Auch kleine dinge. . Ron +More Ron Iles > > > >

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