‘Tis the season for flowers to go a-blooming. Dandelion after Yesterday’s Four Inches of Snow Went Away Oh, who’s that hiding behind the flower, being all shy, like? When we were all […]
Weevils Among the Flowers
Winemaking, the Natural Way
It’s not an accident that fungal colonies live on the skins of grapes and continue the life of the fruit long after the leaves have been blasted off by frost. In fact, […]
A Matter of Statistics
Statistics is a powerful tool for analyzing data, and for making it more difficult to observe anything other than data. Take a look at the representation of an old way of thinking, […]
Honouring Snow
Ten centimetres of snow fell last night. The wet season has begun. The snow falls, it evaporates, it falls, it evaporates, it falls, it evaporates, and so on, etcetera, etcetera, et cet […]
The Spirit of the Land
All the waiting was worth it. OK, sure, these royal gala apple trees are pruned hard at their tips to draw heavily fertilized water up past the weak fruiting wood below and are […]
Sunflowers and Blackbirds
I decided to speed up the drying of my sunflower seeds by taking them off of all their pretty heads. Look at the colour variation from one seed packet! I tried a […]
Writing With the Land
Writing literature in the contemporary world is largely about reflecting on, amplifying and extending the traditions of literature. Mostly, these traditions are interpreted as the stories of individual consciousness. Those are all […]
Earth Bucks: A New Economic Model
Even in dry country, water falls from the sky. Along the way, it imitates gophers. Yes, gophers. Here’s what the gophers are up to: Sorting Rock! It’s the season for moving out […]
Fall Colour
I’ve been looking at leaves, or, rather, I’ve been staring into the sun. Really. Take a look: To Travel to the Sun, Visit Your Nearest Pear Tree Forget NASA It wasn’t always […]
The Starlings are Restless
Ah, Autumn, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…That’s what the poet said. Hardly! A Group of Starlings Gather in a Vertical Home Sewage Dissipation Apparatus Keats was right, there’s a lot of […]
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