It’s not over until it’s over. Peaches are not the only ripening. All ripenings do not lead to harvest.
Peach Harvest Goes On into November
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Who Can Take the Cold, or Is It Really Climate Change?
Here’s the Vineyard at the Rise, frozen with grapes on the vine. And here is the picking team. And the administration… I’m all for feeding the birds, but it would have been […]
The Snow Buckwheat Game
Look how we got things wrong with our cool scientific thinking. Great thinking, but still, look how we got things wrong. What I mean is, scientific thinking has allowed for close study […]
Of Memory and Resilience
Tbese webs are woven, and then rebuilt again and again after being torn by prey. They are then built on the old pattern, and become thick. This is what memory looks like, […]
A Bountiful Filbert Harvest
The filberts are here! This is after I washed them. Can you spot the one with the mouse hole in it? The mice got 10%. The rest, rescued from the lilac, the […]
Breathing the Sun
There is hardly a difference between Earth and sky. … is scarcely different from water cut by sky. Where the hillside is slowed by stones… … and snow buckwheat… Are these not […]
Surfing in the Sky
These days with layers of air sliding over each other … …are great ones for watching the clouds tell stories. Isn’t that a dog surfing, there?
