.MTYyNg.MTQzMjg5

-2- was delayed and several books appeared which scooped that field - so I gave that up.

    I am working now on a monograph which is on a rather abstruse field of plant science in which virtually no one is working since a Russian scientist died in 1939.  It will take maybe 10 years of experiments to complete it.  It would never sell very many copies but would be alone in its field probably for a long time.
    Professionally I have done fairly well perhaps - tho the load of administrative work has slowed down my research.
    I find California stimulating - the ideal climate for a brain worker.  However, I keep some midwestern roots.  I have a small farm in Central Illinois.  I like Iowa, Indiana, and Illinois in many ways.  You are wise to keep an Ozark hideout.  I agree with ? Frank Lloyd Wright that all cities are outmoded.  I don't believe in investing anything in city property - too expendable in the modern world!  I have a house here - so perhaps I am inconsistent!  Well - the Italians build houses right up the slopes of their volcanos.  I used to work with a Sicilian who wold tell of watching the streams of lava flow around their villages (and  sometimes over them.)
   We do indeed live in a dangerous world but when I travel around the California, Nevada and Arizona deserts I try to figure out ow the American pioneers ever got