“The oldest task in human history is to live
on a piece of land without spoiling it.”
- Aldo Leopold
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134 ~ Public Service Announcement: Words (of the subversive variety)
Time for the Spring Green Literary Festival…!
133 ~ Of speckled trout and champagne
In early winter of 1936 Frank Lloyd Wright nearly died of pneumonia at his home near Spring Green, Taliesin…
132 ~ An Equinox postcard from Taliesin
Welcome to autumn. When the sun traced its finger across the equator yesterday…
131 ~ Reclaiming Eden
The metaphorical Adam and Eve weren't driven out of the Garden of Eden…
130 - Guest post: The death of a survivor
Chickens are a big part of life here at the farmstead. My major sources of protein this time of year are, in order…
129 ~ An elder redux, and this vibrant time
In a recent post I wrote about a 101 year-old friend, an associate of Frank Lloyd Wright, who still lives at Taliesin. In a short video story just out from "Wisconsin Life"…
128 ~ Going in to find the way out
My brother Tom, who is a marvelous painter, once said to me while visiting the farmhouse, "Bird, your vegetable gardens are your art, they are your canvas.”…
126 ~ For the love of rain
Whenever I hear something along the lines of "What a lousy day, all this rain”, I feel my dissent rising…
125 ~ Further reflections on fungi
In the months ahead, as I work on the book on Saola, here at “A Bird in the Bush” I’ll bring in and share other voices on the importance of connection with nature…
124 ~ The world according to morels
May is the curious month when the distance between sunrise and sunset gets longer, but the days feel shorter because there's so much to do…
123 ~ A cure for blindness
The capital of Laos, Vientiane, is one of the smallest, gentlest capital cities among the otherwise general chaos of urban centers in Southeast Asia. It is a river city…