Landscape
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Walking Landscape
Walking a landscape is learning a landscape. They go hand in hand. Driving landscape is an introduction. Walking a landscape though, is an adventure in to landscape’s thinking, feeling, and imagination. Walking gives one the opportunity to pause and wonder. Each foot fall creates… Continue reading
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Spring Leaf
The apricot trees blossomed early this spring. Though they are the first bloomers of all our fruit trees, the buds arrived a little earlier than normal. If our luck held, they survived the early spring 27-degree frosts. Yet we had a good number… Continue reading
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Apricot Leaf: Birth and Resurrection
Last night’s wind fell the last of the apricot leaves. Their fall ends a remarkable season. From spring birth to grounded resting they served us simple beauty, remarkable shade on a hundred-degree summer day, and protected their natural treed sibling: the apricot.… Continue reading
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All of Day
Butterflies are flying. I have set the irrigation lines and I’m now heading to turn on the irrigation pump. I notice small white and orange butterflies, of to my left, as I drive the four-wheeler along the eastern edge of the hayfield. I’m… Continue reading
Chewing the Cud 