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Second-Growth Timber: March 2015
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Researching your ancestors is always a source of surprises; you’re lucky if it’s not a snake pit. Every family has stories that may be truth or fantasy, or at least embroidery. I was told from youth that we were descended from the illustrious Lees of Virginia. Actually it appears that we are descended from the less illustrious Lees of North Carolina — by way of the hillbilly Lees of Tennessee. Thursday, March 19, 2015. They often visit us in the morning, their dun coats shiftin...
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Second-Growth Timber: August 2014
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Monday, August 11, 2014. After a couple of dry summers, sometimes classified as severe or extreme drought, this season has been moist and comparatively cool. By mid-August most years, the grass is dry and crackling. Trees begin to lose leaves. The only bright green along the roadsides is the budding ragweed. Cooler weather has been another surprise gift. But even with this unexpected bounty, precipitation for the region is still below average. And of course, the ragweed is still thriving. The first storm...
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Second-Growth Timber: June 2014
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Monday, June 16, 2014. We shredded a few of these in class. I discovered by taking daily quizzes that I don’t mind drawing a blank as much as I mind thinking that I know the answer when I’m actually wrong. I know people who could. Identify this tree in five. Seconds. With the botanical. Key, it took us half an hour,. But now I know what makes. It a bur oak. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Denise Low, 2007-2009 Ks. Poet Laureate. The Mythical Jacquaflute Arrives!
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Second-Growth Timber: March 2014
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Snow-piercers. Some people say it's bad luck to bring the blooms inside, but that little nosegay delighted me. There are 75 varieties of galanthus,. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Denise Low, 2007-2009 Ks. Poet Laureate. International author Xánath Caraza’s latest book is a moving prayer, in Spanish and English, to water. The Mythical Jacquaflute Arrives! 2014 McHenry County Fair. Cupid and Psyche for Beginners. Closed. Shut. Defunct. Boarded Up.
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Second-Growth Timber: April 2014
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014. I’ve never felt like a stranger in the timber here, even though I’m still learning the names of the trees and finding new wildflowers hiding under the coral berries every spring. The spirit of this land has known me since I was knee-high. The violets speak for me. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Denise Low, 2007-2009 Ks. Poet Laureate. International author Xánath Caraza’s latest book is a moving prayer, in Spanish and English, to water.
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Second-Growth Timber: Spirit Villages
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014. Watching the timber recover from logging, farming, grazing, drought, storms and time, I’ve come to trust the resilience of the land. With humans or without us, the earth will survive. Gaia takes care of her own. Reading Ronald D. Parks’ meticulous and compassionate book, The Darkest Period:. The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846-1873,. 8220;like a flock of Turkeys.”. Yet they survive. In Oklahoma, Kaw City flourishes. The Kanza tribe. The stolen Shunganunga Boulder.
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Second-Growth Timber: Thresholds
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Friday, June 26, 2015. Crossing a threshold sounds like a significant event. We all do it over and over, day after day. We move unthinking from room to room, indoors to outside and back. When you cross a threshold you enter sacred space, magic time. The world you know lies behind you, the unknown before. Every threshold stands between worlds. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Denise Low, 2007-2009 Ks. Poet Laureate. The Mythical Jacquaflute Arrives! 2014 McHenry County Fair.
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Second-Growth Timber: October 2013
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Sunday, October 27, 2013. Italian legends tell of a witch who walks in the woods and along the roadsides, muttering to herself. Sometimes she stops a stranger to hitch a ride or bum a cigarette. You might meet her in the market, mumbling as she glares at the produce. If you are rude to her you will be cheated, but if you are kind you might return home to find a basket of apples by your door. She was once a goddess or a nymph. Her name is Feronia. From www.sacred-texts.com. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Second-Growth Timber: November 2013
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Thursday, November 7, 2013. Sometimes the timber makes me feel like an idiot. I’m a neophyte at taxonomy. After a few years of trying to decipher which tree is which, I suspect I’ll always be a neophyte at taxonomy. I’m embarrassed to admit how long I lived here without figuring out the difference between elm and hackberry. Bitternut is the tallest native hickory here, growing on hillsides and along streams. Squirrels store and eat its bitter-tasting, heart-shaped nuts. Carya cordiformis. When European s...
