“The oldest task in human history is to live
on a piece of land without spoiling it.”
- Aldo Leopold
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67 ~ Invasive species I love
Last February, during a talk I attended at the Wisconsin Garden Expo, the speaker invited the audience to share the names of some of their favorite native plants. One woman nominated watercress…
66 ~ Grounded
This morning I picked up this red-tailed hawk along County Road T, about a mile from the house…
65 ~ Fat living in the lean time (and an olive oil update)
Here in the March lean time, spring has thus far been come-and-go, teasing us and then withdrawing…
64 ~ Welcome, Sugar Moon
March is the month God created to show people who don’t drink what a hangover is like. – Garrison Keillor.
63 ~ Some fine farewells to February
There is still some wonder left in this winter. First, sugaring season is here!…
62 ~ Olive of my eye.
It’s no secret that Italy produces some of the world’s finest olive oil…
61 ~ There are snow peas, and snow beans…
It was bitingly cold again yesterday, with the visible world pressed between a low gray sky and an equally dull remnant of old snow. Not even the crows were about. I took to the trellises to harvest beans…
60 ~ First sign of spring! Sort of…
A couple of days ago, on Thursday, with the temp here below 0F…
59 ~ Cows and trout. Or, ‘brook trout’ by any other name.
In this heart of winter, I’ll brighten things up with a revisit to the subject of trout, via a piece I recently published about chasing trout in the Swiss Alps…
58 ~ Two years, many thanks
Well, here we are – today marks the second anniversary of the last time I grocery shopped….
57 ~ Holy leftovers
I was born, baptized and confirmed in the One, Holy, Apostolic and Catholic Church - have my ticket punched to heaven. Although I don’t subscribe today to the specifics of the Church’s dogma, I still enjoy returning to Mass on occasion…
56 ~ Thanksgiving afterglow
Here’s hoping you had a fine Thanksgiving, and it left in its wake even more stirrings of gratitude.