Acts of Omission

Fall                                                                      Waning Autumn Moon Went out in a cool fall afternoon, cut open bags of composted manure, spread them with a cultivator, working it into the soil.  Poured leaves from our trees over the top.  An investment in next year’s garden, the last act of the gardening year. The ash tree in the garden has […]

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Angels in the Dark

70  bar falls 29.98  0mph S dew-point 58  sunrise 6:57  set 7:17 Waning Gibbous Harvest Moon rise  8:32  set 11:01 On Thursday nights I watch Supernatural on the CW.  My lifelong fascination with gothic tales, especially ones involving demons makes this irresistible to me, even more so than Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which I also […]

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The Lumberjack at Home

73  bar steady  30.18  1mph N  dew-point 47  sunrise 6:54  set 7:19  Lughnasa Waning Gibbous Harvest Moon  rise 8:02  set 9:41 Got this one down without hitting the house, the fence or the glass table on the deck.  My merit badge is secure. This work prepares the area for the orchard and fruit bushes.  Lindsay […]

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Vineland Place

74  bar steady  29.89  4mph NNE dew-point 64   Summer, warmish and stickyish Full Thunder Moon Ah, the power of suggestion.  Especially from a spouse.  Spent an hour and a half clearing burdock, nettles, black locust, burrs, climbing wild cucumbers and virginia creeper from the site of the soon to be firepit cum family gathering spot.  […]

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Their Lawlessness Got out of Hand

57  bar steep fall 29.94  7mph  ENE dew-point 52  Beltane, cloudy and cool                        Last Quarter of the Hare Moon Can this possibly mean what it says?  “While cities are hot spots for global warming, study finds people in them emit fewer gases.”  Washington Post, 5/29/2008   In this same vein I watched part of a […]

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I Think That I Shall Never See

71  bar steady  30.00  1mph SSW dewoint 35  Beltane             Waxing Gibbous Hare Moon A morning at the Rum River Tree Farm.  Kate and I went wandering among the trees up for adoption.  We looked at fruit trees for our orchard apple, plum, pear and cherry.  We also looked at some willows, Niobe for example, with […]

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A Burning Tree

 65  bar falls 29.94 0mph S dewpoint 30 Beltane               New Moon (Hare Moon)  The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life and activity; it affords protection to all beings. (Buddhist  Sutra) Though this comes from a […]

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The Wollemi Pine–Live From the Carboniferous

33  bar steep rise 30.06 5mph N dewpoint 22 Spring                 Waning Gibbous Moon of Growing The workshop I attended today had two co-sponsors, The Institute for Advanced Studies (UofM) and the Arboretum(UofM).  This was the culminating workshop in a two-year long effort by the Institute for Advanced Studies to explore time from many perspectives.  […]

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Natural Rhythms and Time

53  bar falls 30.03 omph W dewpoint 32 Spring             Waning Crescent Moon of Winds Over to IHOP for some of that down home country fried food.  Always a treat.  Kate and I did our business meeting, deposited several thousand dollars in Wells Fargo and came back home.  Lois was here.  She commented on the […]

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