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Beyond the Fields We Know: Thursday Poem - Epiphany
Lynn Schmidt says she saw You once as prairie grass, Nebraska prairie grass, she climbed out of her car on a hot highway, leaned ...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Into the Woods and the Wildnesses
Having a birthday, off to the woods and the river!
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Homecoming
There is certainly not much for them to eat right now, but the first flocks of Canada geese ( Branta canadensis ) have arrived and taken up...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Free Again and Loving It
And so it goes...The melt continues, and we are glad to be free of ice for a day or three, but heavy clouds obscure the rising sun except fo...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Coming Up Purple
Grape Hyacinth ( Muscari )
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Wordless Wednesday - Coming up Purple
Wild and Earthy Thoughts Gathered Along the Journey
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Thursday Poem - Swiftly
Swiftly the years, beyond recall, Solemn the stillness of this fair morning. I will clothe myself in spring clothing, And visit the slopes o...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Wordless Wednesday - Tattered
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Friday Ramble - Always a Doorway
Every once in a while, something drops into one's life like a refreshing rain, and just when she needs it. In the January 2010 issue of t...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Wordless Wednesday - Woodland White
Great White Trillium ( Trillium grandiflorum )
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Sunday, Saying Yes to the World
To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; the...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Into the Light
White Crocus (Ice Queen)
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Thursday Poem - Become Becoming
Wait for evening. Then you'll be alone. Wait for the playground to empty. Then call out those companions from childhood: The one ...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: The Lush and Golden Alcove
Some trees in our woodland hold their turning in abeyance until November, and we are always happy to see them. Great oaks often retain t...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Thursday Poem - September Mosaic
Before we come with rakes and crackling energy to clean it up, the backyard is precisely as the dog prefers it -- left alone, a natural sele...
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Beyond the Fields We Know
Wild and Earthy Thoughts Gathered Along the Journey
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Beyond the Fields We Know: The Midsummer Moon of June
What else can one call a full moon that falls on the eve of the summer solstice, but the "Midsummer Moon"? This year, no other name will ...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: By Butternut Hill
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Beyond the Fields We Know: The Sisterhood of Eye and Leaf
Little things leave you feeling restless in mid January. You ramble through stacks of gardening catalogues , plotting another heritage ...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Yuletide Reading List
This is a holiday tradition, a list of written materials about the winter holiday season and the return of the light to the north. Many of t...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Thursday Poem - Camas
Consider the lilies of the field, the blue banks of camas opening into acres of sky along the road. Would the longing to lie down and be w...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Sunday - Saying Yes to the World
For those of us who care for an earth not encompassed by machines, a world of textures, tastes and sounds other than those that we have e...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Wild Wonders All a-Maying
How astonishing the wild encounters of May: the first stained glass swallowtails fluttering in the western field, ferns, wild leeks a...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: October Song
Wild and Earthy Thoughts Gathered Along the Journey
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Sequestered, Week 292 (CCXCII)
Wild and Earthy Thoughts Gathered Along the Journey
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Wordless Wednesday - Reflection
Wild and Earthy Thoughts Gathered Along the Journey
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Sunday - Saying Yes to the World
We have been carrying on two parallel conversations, one about respecting human diversity, the other about preserving natural diversity....
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Eighteen Years and Onward
On Sunday morning, clocks in the little blue house in the village turned back an hour, and Daylight Saving Time waved goodbye until next yea...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: December's Moon of Long Nights
This morning, I was tempted to indulge in a few verses of very bad homegrown poetry, but refrained from doing so - I wanted to honor in a ne...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Friday Ramble - Fragile
This week's word comes to us from Old French, thence from the Latin fragilis or frangere meaning to break. Tucked somewhere in there is...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Coming to Light
Spatterdock or Yellow Pond Lily (Nuphar polysepala)
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Thursday Poem - You Reading This, Be Ready
Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining floor? What scent of old wood hovers, what softened s...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Thursday Poem - Flying at Night
Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations. Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies like a snowflake falling on water. Below us, some ...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Tornados and Small Craft Warnings
Sorry to be so late in posting this. The village has been without power and communications since yesterday afternoon when a tornado reduc...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Advent Sun Wheel, Week 1
Wild and Earthy Thoughts Gathered Along the Journey
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Sequestered, Week 222 (CCXXII)
Wild and Earthy Thoughts Gathered Along the Journey
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Beyond the Fields We Know: To Years Old and New
What shall I say about this past year, about all the water already under the bridge and now somewhere else entirely? Spring arrived right on...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Espresso, Icicles, Words Gone Walkabout
I awaken before sunrise and brew a lovely espresso in the De'Longhi, then stumble into the study to write a blog post, trying not to drop t...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Asclepius On the Edge
Swamp Milkweed or Butterfly Weed (Asclepias incarnata)
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Sequestered, Week 209 (CCIX)
Some mornings, she feels like staying home and drawing arty shapes in the first cuppa of the day. Other mornings, she just wants to sit quie...
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Beyond the Fields We Know: Late Autumn - Songs in a Different Key
Leaves crunching underfoot or rattling like sabres in in the wind, ice crystals limning cedar fence rails along the ridge, blowsy plume...
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