I am feeling much better this week. The baby rabbit kept finding a way into the garden and eating all of my bush and soup beans, some squash blossoms, and nibbling on the sweet potato vines but I just feel resigned. James and I chase the poor scared little Bun around the garden, trying to …
Normal Doesn’t Exist Anymore
Our drought here has gone from moderate to severe in spite of a couple thunderstorms this past week. Meanwhile, Vermont is underwater, the southern U.S. is baking in a record-breaking heatwave, and Canada is on fire. Other parts of the world are in no better shape. But the business of fossil energy production continues apace …
What I Did, or Didn’t Do, On My Summer Vacation
Hello Friends! I’ve been away on vacation. I went on a long trip far away to my garden and it was magnificent. Every morning instead of going to work after breakfast, I put on my garden clothes and spent 2-3 hours playing in the dirt. Then I’d come in, shower, have a little snack and …
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It’s Getting Quiet
There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example--where had they gone? … On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring …
Grief and Joy
Ah Friends, it's been an emotional sort of week. We are in moderate drought here at the moment. The garden is suffering in spite of James and I watering it; we can't water enough. New Cherry Tree has only ever made very tiny leaves and I don't know if these leaves are enough for them …
