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 […]
The Spirit of the Land
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 […]
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 […]
Fun, Food and Respect with Pumpkins
First, the unchosen, fated to rot in the field and to be plowed under in the spring… A Pumpkin That Actually Ripens for Halloween is Six Weeks Too Late Bummer Then, the […]
Gripple Apples
Gripple. Nice word. It has an active form, too: grippling. These old words don’t hang out in a dictionary, though, and Google is hopeless with them, but you can find them in […]
Walking on the Surface of the Sun
On the shore of the sea, the water goes up and down. You can walk around out there when the moon drags the ocean all here and there and the sun blows […]
Fall: What’s Not to Love?
Autumn. It’s the beginning of the glory that is winter. It’s About the Light! Berry farm below Goose Lake, as the sun rises selectively. And just in front of that? See what […]
Red Cabbage For Christmas
It’s never too early to let the shorter days lead one into getting ready for Yule, and this is the time for red cabbage, pickled. My German ancestors did weird things with […]
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