Spring Bee Hiving Moon If you’re a dog lover, you’ll find this interesting. Bears and dogs are of the order Carnivora and the […]
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Winter Full Moon of Long Nights We have gained back a few minutes since the Winter Solstice, so the New Year will arrive, as it does every year, with a bit more daylight than the grimmer days of mid-winter. The neighbors have begun to shoot off fireworks. They are a restrained lot for the most […]
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Beltane Waning Dyan Moon Something hinky with the 1&1 servers today. (my web host) Couldn’t get on until late. Back now. I spent the morning and late afternoon working on an America’s tour for a group of design students at the College for the Visual Arts. The theme came with some difficulty, but I decided […]
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Beltane Waxing Dyan Moon Poppa (the big gray wolfhound, Guiness) and his children. Our new pups are in this picture, but I can’t pick them out. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- The orchard early in its first growing season. Currants in the foreground to the right, cherries and plums the trees in mid-ground. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– A potato eye view of […]
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Beltane Waxing Dyan Moon Kate and I went out this afternoon to Loretto, near Corcoran. This is a horsey part of the metro, but we wanted to look at dogs, specifically an Irish Wolfhound and Walker Coyote Hound mix. The man who bred them, Julian Lehman, has the unusual occupation of master of the hunt. […]
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Imbolc Waning Wild Moon Our Arcosanti bell has rung and rung today. A north wind has blown in at speeds up to 24 mph. Kate bought this bell quite a while ago on a trip to see her father. When she brought it back, we had just experienced two Wolfhound deaths, I believe it was […]
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68 bar steady 29.65 2mph ESE dew-point 56 Beltane, Sunny and sort of warm First Quarter of the Flower Moon “Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.” – James Russell Lowell My docent friend, Bill Bomash, fell 10 feet into […]
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2 56% 22% 6mph W bar 29.54 steep rise windchill-5 Last Quarter of the Winter Moon Kate brought me a spray of yellow tulips two days ago. They have opened now and have the scent of spring. We’re seeking another dog, looking at Irish Wolfhound and Scottish Deerhound rescues on the internet. We won’t […]
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22 85% 26% 0mph NNE bar 29.97 falls YuleTide Waning Gibbous Cold Moon Excerpt of a poem by William Stafford, Choosing A Dog Your good dogs, some things that they hear they don’t really want you to know — it’s too grim or ethereal. And sometimes when they look in the fire they see […]
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