John Predmore, S.J., is a Jesuit priest of U.S.A. East and the pastor of the English speaking diocese of Jerusalem in Amman Jordan. Formerly a retreat director in Gloucester, Massachusetts, he brings Ignatian Spirituality to the Middle East. Ignatian Spirituality is given through guided meditations, weekend-, 8-day, and 30-day Retreats based on The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Ignatian Spirituality serves the contemporary world as people strive to develop a friendship with God.
Mystery solved...so snow that falls from an airmass that has come from polluted places, where, for example, there are many power plants will contain nitrates (acid rain). So perhaps this is some good coming from the bad!
Long ago, snow would not have had such nourishment in it for the plants...and some snow still doesn't.
Why nitrates? Asks the chemist....
ReplyDeleteI defer to chemists. I was always told by gardeners that it was healthy for the lawns. As Mark Clark says, it is a poor person's fertilizer.
DeleteA snowfall is a poor man's fertilizer.
ReplyDeleteThat is what I always heard.
DeleteDo enlighten~
ReplyDeleteMystery solved...so snow that falls from an airmass that has come from polluted places, where, for example, there are many power plants will contain nitrates (acid rain). So perhaps this is some good coming from the bad!
ReplyDeleteLong ago, snow would not have had such nourishment in it for the plants...and some snow still doesn't.
Many thanks, Michelle. I guess I wish snow would not contain nitrates. Nature takes care of itself, but we have to be responsible stewards.
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