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 […]
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 […]
Harvesting Water, Recycling Water, Respecting Water
This is how you comb water out of cloud and mist and drizzle (and let your cattle out of a burn zone for a night on the town at the same time). […]
The Story So Far
Two things for you today: a cool monolith from the Peshastin Pinnacles, and the complete pdf version of my summary of my year wandering in the grass, which I presented to the […]
You Want to Know What Cold Looks Like?
It looks like this! Brrrr! This is why heat-loving foreign plants like tomatoes can be supplemented in this landscape by ones that like the cold and think the heat is bad news, […]
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