Are the Aspens Turning?

I still feel this is among the more intriguing scribbles I have read in a long time:

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More here. One recalls this other extract from a letter Libby wrote to Judy Miller:

"It is fall now … Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them."

We may soon find out how connected they actually are.