Fresh dill is wonderful in chicken soup. My mom uses it a lot. It's not the same as carrot tops -- it's better!

Hope you are, too.
Lynn B. | Homepage | 12.02.04 - 3:15 pm | #

Less talk, more Tig!
Laurence Simon | Homepage | 12.02.04 - 4:39 pm | #

odd about the raptor-I swear, a red-tailed hawk took down a dove right in front of me 2 weeks ago.feathers everywhere.And the expression on raptors-like Hillary when she doesn't get a softball question...
Chris Muir | Homepage | 12.02.04 - 5:22 pm | #

I stumbled here somehow, and now my question as trivial as it is: Is dill better or is carrot tops? I love fresh dill in my chicken soup.
Anayah | 12.02.04 - 5:23 pm | #

10 minutes by jeep.

Probably like 7 by Porsche.

Just sayin.

And no, carrot greens aren't almost the same as dill.
Wind Rider | Homepage | 12.02.04 - 9:20 pm | #

The dill was what was missing from my soup. It smelled like Passover today.

It's quite good, but has a sharp taste. Lynn was right when she advised me not to put too much in.

However, the soup needed something else. Definitely some salt, but something else.

WR, so that means you can get here in an hour in your Porsche, then? Without getting a speeding ticket?

Shyeah.
Meryl Yourish | Homepage | 12.02.04 - 10:19 pm | #

Last winter, the small birds gathered in two intertwined and dense spirea bushes. A Hawk landed in the oak and noticed the small birds. He flew to and landed in the spireas hoping to pick off a bird. He was too heavy for the light branches and tottered around like a drunken sailor on land. It was comical as the birds just skittered to the other side of the bushes and tittered at the hawk. Talk about loss of diginity. Only Clinton has suffered a greater loss of dignity.
Al Bullock | 12.03.04 - 5:31 pm | #

Last summer, while riding my bike down a country road, I saw a small movement on the ground fifty yards or so ahead of me. I couldn't make out the details, but as I was trying to decide what it was, a hawk swooped down out of nowhere, picked up what I think was a field mouse, and carried it away. It happened so quickly that I later wondered if I'd really even seen it. Pretty awe-inspiring, in a predatory sort of way.
Eric | Homepage | 12.03.04 - 7:01 pm | #

Did i mention the crow landing on the back of a rat scurrying across the road, and pecking it to death while the rat was screaming it's head off? Kinda grossed me out...but then it was a rat, right?
DaninVan | 12.04.04 - 1:31 pm | #

I know of a case where an owl swooped down on a local nature writer and plucked her Siamese kitten from her lap.
Rahel | Homepage | 12.04.04 - 1:43 pm | #