Fire! Firefirefire!

My friend T emailed me this and I thought I should share:

I checked up on your blog and found the fire pictures...and it IS just like CA! You probably know that the native Californians used fire as well, and that the native plants do the same things as your "phoenix grass."

When I worked on the grass seed production farm, we burned a lot of our fields after harvesting them because they liked it. You know how CA summers are: if we burned in October, the natives, esp. the needlegrasses, would sprout, despite the fact that they had not seen a drop of water since April or May. That's because their roots go 5 feet into the soul!