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To Bee, To Do

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Art and Culture, Bees, Faith and Spirituality, Garden, Great Wheel, Woolly Mammoths | Tagged clay, flowers, Highpoint, honey supers, Northern Clay, soil, space, Tai Chi, trowel | Leave a comment

Anco Impari (I’m Still Learning. Goya)

Beltane Waning Last Frost Moon We continue sliding toward summer, a cool, moist descent, not at all like the sudden, blazing ascension we often see, usually full on in place by now, with sun screen and hats and pitchers of … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Art and Culture, Bees, Garden, Humanities | Tagged flowers, Latin, learning, Pentheus, vegetables | Leave a comment

A Garden Morning

Beltane New Moon (Hungry Ghost) The potatoes have mounds around the growing plants and the hilled up earth from their trenches has leveled out. The bush beans I planted there last week have begun to germinate and I plan to … Continue reading →

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Planting Done As Planting Moon Wanes

Beltane Waning Planting Moon Almost all of the seeds and transplants have gone in the ground with the exception of succession plantings of beets, lettuce and carrots. I have butternut squash to plant and that will go in today. After … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Humanities, Writing | Tagged flowers, Metamorphosis, Ovid, perennials, squash, translation | Leave a comment

Heirlooms. Better Eating, Better Seeds

Beltane Waxing Planting Moon Got some plants in the mail. I didn’t start anything from seed this last winter after starting way too many the season before. Maybe this winter I’ll hit a happy medium. These are heirloom plants, so … Continue reading →

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Clarifying. Stimulating. Oh, All Right–Damn Cold.

Winter Waning Moon of Long Nights As Bilbo said, I have been there and back again. Up here in the land of the midnight hobbit it remains cold, -7 now at noon. On days when the high is below zero … Continue reading →

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Cool House Plants

69 bar rises 29.73 0mph NNW dew-point 57 A summer night Last Quarter of the Flower Moon This time period, after the iris bloom and the lilacs have died back, we have annuals like petunias, begonias, geraniums and vinca plus the odd … Continue reading →

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A Sisyphean Task

68 bar steady 29.78 0mpn SSW dewpoint 22 Beltane New Moon (Hare Moon) The day has passed as we both tried to get our arms around this notion of Gabe as hemophiliac. As a dedicated user of the … Continue reading →

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Morning Glories in the Lead with Cucumber Right Behind

52 bar rises 30.13 0mph S dewpoint 39 Spring Waning Gibbous Moon of Growing The moon of growing has fulfilled its role. Daylilies have popped up everywhere. A few magnolia buds have popped open. I found a couple of … Continue reading →

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