To celebrate our 100th post here together, here’s a hint about where we’ve been and where we’re going. Over the last 100 posts, I have tried to assemble a working knowledge of […]
Two Ways of Wine
The Problem with Winter
Spring, summer, autumn and winter, the four seasons, right? In the temperate zone, of course. But what about the wet season and the dry season? In Vancouver or Seattle or Reykjavik, for instance, […]
Party Time
Spring lasts from October through May in these parts, even outdoing the below zero temperatures and all that snow and brrr and complaining down at Safeway. That makes for eight months, actually, […]
Fog Crows
For three days, we have lived within the fog that has pulled the summer’s heat out of the lake and breathed it out around us. Here’s what that looks like: The World […]
The Art of Water
Cameras are intriguing machines, that not only capture light, but allow their operators to frame it in a visual space. That space is human. The photographs we take would be useless to […]
Poetic Light
After thinking about water yesterday, and how it is moved from place to place with the sun’s heat, which it stored and gave back again under the soil surface, I went to […]
The Weight of Air
The earth’s surface, where humans live, is a complex interface. Even something as simple as snow is part of a complex energy transfer here. The World of Snow When the apparatus of […]
Water Footprint
The term “water footprint” is part of the vocabulary of the green revolution. It is used to describe the amount of water used by an activity. I’ve recently heard the suggestion that […]
The Earth is Alive
We are not alone. This is fantastic news. Burrow in the Valley It looks like the resident is at home, too, waiting out the months of bad hunting. Such times of rest […]
Adding and Subtracting Value
Words are curious things. Here are two, often used together by government and industry: value and added. Together they indicate a concept by which an area of production (vegetable growing, perhaps) can […]
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