What’s That Smell?
by admin | Jan 16, 2008 | 0 comments
I don’t imagine that many of you have had the occasion to want or need to catch a skunk (carnivora mephitidae), and if so, you are indeed fortunate. For catching a skunk isn’t all that easy and is only done at some great personal peril. Not peril to life and limb, although one hears of the odd rabid skunk snapping at some unsuspecting sole, usually in the city, but peril to ones olfactory process. More to the point, you can smell really bad for a long time if you get in the way of a skunk at the wrong time. Of all the human senses, the sense of smell is perhaps the least understood from a physiological sense. We all, or most of us, have noses through which...Gary J. Fernandes
After 30 years in the world of big business, Gary “retired” to pursue long ignored interests. While continuing his involvement in the corporate world by serving as a director of several public companies, he has, among other things, traveled the world in pursuit of the perfect bird photograph, served national and local charities as a director and donor, developed a personal web site as a platform for his writing on subjects of personal interest, and, occasionally, taken time to smell the roses.
Gary and his wife Sandra, shuttle between their condo in Dallas and their farm in Fannin county, Texas where they indulge themselves in organic gardening, long walks and entertaining friends and family.