In a message dated 10/3/2002 7:25:12 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > If you want to learn more about seabeans and the different plants and trees > they > come from you can go to www.seabean.com I checked it out, and it was really interesting. I'd never heard of them before, although I did know that nonnative plants can pop up along beaches when their seeds get carried downstream on the tides from some other location. Birds sometimes show up in odd places for the same reason (only on air instead of water); that's how they believe the cattle egret got here from Africa in the last century. Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr