Mid-Summer Waning Honey Flow Moon Potting, something done for thousands of years by diverse human communities, is hard. At least for me. Kate seems to be getting it. We have a 6,000 year old Chinese pot at the MIA that is one of my favorite pieces in the museum. It is not easy and especially […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Honey Flow Moon On Monday I started the clay class. Monday evening the Woollies made monoprints at Highpoint Print Co-op. Last night was the History of Graphic Design lecture on graphic design, 1950 to the present and tonight Justin and I meet to discuss the Sierra Club’s legislative process and other matters related […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Honey Flow Moon Turns out making cylinders is hard. In clay. Kate and I are rank beginners at this clay thing, but we are taking a class with others who aren’t. This makes life difficult for the teacher and for us rank beginners. Near the end of Day 2 today I think I […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Honey Flow Moon Out to the bees in just a few minutes to slap on two more honey supers each, the six I finished varnishing yesterday while Mark put foundations in the frames. This will find six honey supers on colonies 2 & 3, while colony 1, the parent colony for next year’s […]
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Beltane Waning Garlic Moon In my new names for Minnesota full moons this is the garlic moon, because under its gaze, in its waning nights, the garlic leaves will begin to die back and the garlic will be ready to come out of the garden. This is now my third year with garlic started from […]
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Beltane Waning Last Frost Moon “We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.” –W.B. Yeats Surprises. They come unexpectedly. […]
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