Monday, October 1, 2012

1 October 2012 Red October? Depends on the trees



          Naval battles have always fascinated me.  They are incredibly complex exercises in death played out in three dimensions over time.  As with any battle studied from a distance, the student is working from incomplete information on a sanitized game board which factors out the brutality of war at sea which becomes a two-pronged exercise in damage control played out while making every effort to sink enemy ships.
          In point of fact, each combatant warship is fighting both the official national enemy and the ocean.  All the unpleasant elements that make land war so difficult are present in sea battles, except, perhaps, flies. 
          Early sea battles have changed the course of civilization and have been commemorated in one of the most beautiful works of sculpture ever created.

Winged Victory of Samothrace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a 2nd century BC marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). Since 1884, it ...”

          This morning  brought leaden skies, rain, and a drive into mountain Home for “further testing.”  Tonight will bring more rain and Italian sausage and peppers for dinner. 
          The trees are beginning to turn.  The summer’s drought may have damped down the autumn color.  Time will tell, but it may actually answer in November.

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