Lately, high teas seem to be the fashion. But not high tea as we do it in the little red dot with multi-tier munchies on lacy table tops and expensive price tags. Rather home made goodies reminiscent of our far away hometown with ladies under a gazebo-styled garden canopy with nettings alll round to keep out the winged visitors. Ladies savoring bite sized finger food exchanging gossips and openly reveling in each other's company till the late hours of night. Such is the passing of long lazy days of summer. Nice.
Back from Calgary where the weather was perfect and the city unbelievably clean and civil. Not quite what I had expected of a city benefitting greatly from the oil boom. Learnt about the extraction of bitumin from the vast tar sands that can theoretically last for over a hundred years but has obvious environmental impact. Flew to see the Albian tar sands. An unbelievable sight. From the air. And on the ground. Gigantic scoopers on tires more than twice the height of my tall American and Canadian friends. Viewed the crew from 30 feet high standing on the deck of the driver's cabin. Tires that cost upwards or $66,000 a piece and more than twice that on the spot market in a crunch. Vast holes in the earth that dwarfed these huge trucks that dwarfed the people who drive them. Held and felt the tar sands. Griefed over the scarring of the beautiful lands but heard promises of replanting and reclaiming to original conditions. Man's progress and its irretractable dependency on energy. Been reading much on energy and the sources and uses of energy as we know it today and the alternatives to energy as we know it today. Immense. In many aspects. How we address these issues will determine what our children and their children and their children's children will inherit.
Will be off to Central Park in less than an hour to listen to summer concert. Today - Beatles songs. Ahhh... the long lazy days of summer.
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