In A Dark Wood Wandering

Spring                                                                               Bloodroot Moon Another Latin session with Greg finished.  We went once a week for about […]

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They’re just being Republicans

Imbolc                                                          Waxing Bloodroot Moon Latin.  Subjunctives, indirect questions, tense sequences.  Done in a bit of a fog, almost like school.  The verb conjugations still have not taken full root in my mind, though at this point I have had exposure to all of them, for all four tenses.  I’ve had exposure likewise to five noun […]

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Hail, La Nina

Imbolc                                New (Bloodroot) Moon A while back I asked John Harstad, then the naturalist at Cedar Creek Nature Center, a wonderful place run by the University of Minnesota and only about 15 miles from home, about first signs of spring.  His answer coincided with a local master gardener, “Bloodroot blooms.”  Since that should happen within […]

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