The choke cherries, those that remain from July’s crop, are softening, ripening and turning sweet with the cold. That is the work of temperature, bacteria and yeast. Look, more closely, though: Is […]
Choke Cherry Mystery
Harold Rhenisch
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Peach Harvest Goes On into November
It’s not over until it’s over. Peaches are not the only ripening. All ripenings do not lead to harvest.
Pure Tree
Look at the quickbeam spread by dividing evenly, over and over again. Not so the poplar. It prefers to raise for the top. The multiplicity and order are here, but they are […]
Black Holes Are No Anomaly
Some leaves have holes. Others are holes. All leaves are holes in the light. When they are alive, they place themselves there. When they are dead, they are like the rest of […]
Sunflower Diplomacy, Human Bargaining
If you call… … they will come. Lunch Time But wait! Humans have a role to play here. These sunflowers originated with a charity giving them away in search of support. The […]
The Art of Fall Medicine
Choke cherries have long been used to heal respiratory ailments, by drying inflamed tissues. One might as well say that in the fall, choke cherry goes black, with black leaves, black fruit […]
Cottonwoods Are the Salmon of the Air
Cottonwood trees lay down the nutrient conditions for salmon by creating sandbars, back eddies, and nutrient rich water. More vitally, their leaves are salmon. They grow along a spine and then at […]
Garlic, Sleeping
Winter? A time of growth, I say. And leaf painting. My garlic is growing roots now undercover, but the welsh onions are having a grand time in the cold. That’s nectarine leaves […]
The Black Widow’s Journey
Off we went mid-afternoon, Black Widow and I. Both of us wanted to live in the same house. After being bitten by a black widow a month ago, I thought, no, maybe […]
Winter Bees
Summer bees might be creatures of sun and flowers and air and light… Here is Next Summer … but that’s because they are preparing to be bees of soil and Earth and […]
