Popping in to say hi. Hi! What I've been doing: So many elderberries What James has been doing: Elderberry-rhubarb jam, or elderbarb as we call it, our own invention. And yesterday James and I had a Day of Mindfulness at a local Vietnamese Buddhist Temple that practices in the Plum Village tradition as taught by …
Author: Stefanie
Avid reader, gardener, librarian, cyclist, and vegan.
Squashed
Hello Friends! The summer heat has broken and what a relief it is! Temperatures this past week have ranged between 75F/24C to 85F/29C, which is what “normal summer” should be. That’s not to say there won’t be a 90F/32C day slipping in now and then, there will be, there always is. Only, the likelihood of …
Cicada Season
Hello Friends! whirligig zinnias with bumblebee Having reached Lughnasadh and Lammas, halfway between the Summer Solstice and the Autumn Equinox, we are moving into late summer and fair and sweet corn season. I’m not much of a fair goer, I like the concept, but the crowds are too much for me. If I go to …
Under the Dome
No, not the Stephen King book, or the three seasons of the series based on the book that James and I hate watched every single episode of and then laughed ourselves silly at the snarky commentary at Reactor Magazine (then Tor). No, this was a week-long heat dome. The heat dome moved away Friday night, …
Abundant
Hello Friends! These past two weeks have seen me spending all of my free time picking raspberries or working on a dharma talk for my sangha this last Thursday. Now I am busy in the garden and catching up with all the things I let slide. A heat dome arrived today and we are under …
