We haven't seen Barney in maybe four or five days, and we are a little bit worried about him. He has been known to go off and come back, and it is always comforting to see him now and then. This morning at the breakfast table, Joel say a grey cat walking down one of the paths. Later this afternoon (jody and I were heading off to a wedding in Dripping Springs), I was taking food out to Barney, and there was the grey cat...not terribly stand-offish, and looking like he was happy to see someone. It is always kind of puzzling to me that cats just seem to come and go out here on the Edge of Nowhere. Barney has been the most consistent of the barn cats, and we hope he is still around somewhere. AND, I kind of think that, if there were any 'bad blood' between the grey cat and Barney, Barney would definitely be the victor. I do not get the sense from the grey cat that he/she is very wise to the world of being left on its own, but who am I to make that decision. We will keep a look out for Barney, and maybe we will also be feeding a grey cat from now on, too!Inselberg -- Noun. an isolated mountain. "Oke-Idanre hill consists of high plain with spectacular valleys interspersed with inselbergs of about 3,000 feet above sea level. Africa News, August 4, 2012
Did You Know? Inselberg comes from the German words Insel, meaning "island," and Berg, meaning "mountain," apparently because German explorers thought isolated mountains rising from the plains of southern Africa looked like islands in the midst of the ocean. An inselberg is a rock formation that has resisted wind and weather and remained strong and tall as the land around it eroded away. Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (Olga Rocks) in central Australia are two spectacular examples of inselbergs. The word monadnock, from the name of Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire, is a synonym of inselberg.
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