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on a piece of land without spoiling it.”
- Aldo Leopold
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27 ~ Turning
Welcome to August. Today brings the full moon, the Sturgeon Moon (no such thing as a Trout Moon I guess). While it’s not actually the last full moon of summer., it feels like it, especially as it’s being reinforced by a week of cooler weather. This morning, I can feel the turn toward autumn…
26 ~ In this together
Greetings. Many thanks to all who joined together and contributed ideas for the ‘desert island shopping list’. Here’s a summary of the results…
25 ~ Brook no imitation
Last Tuesday morning I returned to the ‘Taliesen stream’, the clear little ribbon near Spring Green that recently offered up a few brook trout, all of which I had to release. This time I hoped to find a brown trout for my dinner…
23 ~ Audience participation!
Greetings! It’s been a week of firsts here along the creekbank, mainly as things burst from the garden on the heels of a spell of hot weather…
22 ~ Milestone, without millstone
Last week I reached a milestone of sorts - six months since I last went grocery shopping…
21 ~ We, the Sentinelese
North Sentinel Island is a 23 square mile (59 km2) ‘postage stamp’ of forest and coral reefs in the Andaman archipelago of the Bay of Bengal. The island is home to a group of indigenous people who have had almost no contact with the outside world..
20 ~ Consider the morel
“We crossed the brook to the left side and came to the foot of a hill. Age-old oaks, mighty cedars, black birch, maple, Aralia, firs, poplars, hornbeam, spruce, larch and yew all grew together in picturesque profusion…”
19 ~ In memoriam
Today, a pause to join the remembrance, from a blog about living in deeper, positive connection with other living things in the world.
17 ~ Auction!
From the beginning, it has been my intention to shield this blog, and you, dear readers, from surveillance capitalism…