It snowed here in Austin last Sunday, something that only happens every few years, and rarely with enough powder to stick. Usually when it does snow the flakes come at night and greet you in the morning. This storm came at mid-morning, and blew all afternoon, leaving a nice light blanket of white and the stillness that comes with it. Not thick enough to to leave a tracker’s record of the comings and goings of our woodland neighbors, though the mud that was left after the snow melted Monday morning provided some of that.
I keep thinking that someday I'd love to chat with you about Brehon Law (the law of the non-Roman, anti-Norman Irish), which I delved into when I was doing research in the Republic. I'm sure you'd raise some intriguing questions...
I don't know if this helps, but Melville's commentary on British law regarding whales as property, makes me wonder if anything has changed in the intervening years:
I keep thinking that someday I'd love to chat with you about Brehon Law (the law of the non-Roman, anti-Norman Irish), which I delved into when I was doing research in the Republic. I'm sure you'd raise some intriguing questions...
I don't know if this helps, but Melville's commentary on British law regarding whales as property, makes me wonder if anything has changed in the intervening years:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2701-h/2701-h.htm#link2HCH0090