Small Aspect: My Driveway

My driveway at home is an essiential part of where we live even though it gets overlooked. It slighty slopes downwards from my garage to the street. Its color is either gray or white determined by the amount of sun that shines upon it. There are some faded tire tracks at the bottom of it from starting to turn out of it. You can see ants scurrying around it with some brown mounds along the cracks. Over the years the driveway has taken a beating from the countless basketball games and the inches of snow but it still stands storng and is ready for more.

Buffalo for the Broken Heart

How does "Buffalo for the Broken Heart" fit into the larger "nature writing" canon?
The book fits in because of all the land use he writes about. He writes a lot about the scenery around his land and what lives on the land. He also writes about what he has to do to maintain it which is very much like what my group is doing for the Casey Project. We are trying to figure out how to restore then maintain a prairie and he is working on maintaining his land for his animals.

How does O'Brien relate to his environment?
He relates to his enviroment by living on the ranch and being around it all of the time. He likes to see the wilderness that lives around him. An example would be the falcon, he really likes the bird and uses it throughout the book. He would also rotate the cows early in the book to keep the land as fresh as it could be.

If you were to make one suggestion to O'Brien, regarding his land use, what would it be?
I don't have a suggestion because I have never lived on a ranch so I think that he would know what he is doing more than I would.

Wilderness Experience

When I was younger my parents bought a horse for my siblings and me and we kept it at a friends farm in Dike, Iowa. We went up there a lot so we could ride the horse and when we were there we did some other things as well. We had bond fires, go kart rides, chased chickens and sheep around, and played a little wiffle ball. One of the most fun things though was just exploring the property with my siblings. We would walk in the cornfields and in little forests. It was fun seeing all the wildlife and i will remember the memories made for the rest of my life.

O'Brien's Land

At the beginning of the book O'Brien used his land in a way that was unfamilar to some of the ranchers around the area. He seperated his ranch up into different sections and would only let the cattle go into one section at a time therefore he was saving a bunch of grass for later. When the cattle got done there section it would also give the grass some time to regroup.

Casey Property

I was lying down in the long white van on the gravel at the top of the hill. I was having a good time resting while waiting for the other groups to get back when all the sudden i heard a little bit of laughter coming from outside. I looked out the window to see Kyle holding on to something. So I looked closer and saw that it was the spine and ribs of a deer. Everybody around looked kind of shocked that he would actually pick it up and then the teacher had to take it back.

Spring Break Snapshot

There were 15,000 fans in the 17,000 seat arena for the NCAA Basketball Tournament. About 70% of them wearing the Kansas Jayhawk crimson and blue. With about 5 minutes left in the game every single one of them had a scared look of disbelief on their face. The Kansas players and coach looked overwhelmed. With all of this the thousand University of Northern Iowa fans were looking wishful and excited in their purple and gold while clapping along to the fight song during a timeout. There was a great feeling from them that something remarkable was about to happen.

Wendell Berry Poem

This poem is very different from any I have ever read. By that I am talking about the way it is set up. The punctuation is everywhere. There are periods at the beginning, middle, and end of some of the lines. This makes me want to hear how Wendell Berry would read it. I would like to hear how he uses the periods and how he goes from line to line. When I went to see Patrica Smith read her poems it was a world of difference between when I read it in my head and when she read it aloud to everybody. I think there would be a world of dirrerence in this poem as well.