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https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2022/06/thursday-poem-epiphany.html 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 ... beyond the fieldswe knowthursdaypoemepiphany https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2012/12/into-woods-and-wildnesses.html?showComment=1355324241062 Beyond the Fields We Know: Into the Woods and the Wildnesses Having a birthday, off to the woods and the river! beyond the fieldswe knowwoods https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2022/03/homecoming.html 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... beyond the fieldswe knowhomecoming https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2024/02/free-again-and-loving-it.html 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... beyond the fieldswe knowfreeloving https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2019/04/coming-up-purple.html Beyond the Fields We Know: Coming Up Purple Grape Hyacinth ( Muscari ) beyond the fieldswe knowcoming uppurple https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2026/05/wordless-wednesday-coming-up-purple.html Beyond the Fields We Know: Wordless Wednesday - Coming up Purple Wild and Earthy Thoughts Gathered Along the Journey beyond the fieldswe knowwordless wednesdaycoming uppurple https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2026/04/thursday-poem-swiftly.html 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... beyond the fieldswe knowthursdaypoemswiftly https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2017/05/worsdless-wednesday-tattered.html Beyond the Fields We Know: Wordless Wednesday - Tattered beyond the fieldswe knowwordless wednesdaytattered https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2017/05/friday-ramble-always-doorway.html 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... beyond the fieldswe knowfridayramblealways https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2018/05/wordless-wednesday-woodland-white.html Beyond the Fields We Know: Wordless Wednesday - Woodland White Great White Trillium ( Trillium grandiflorum ) beyond the fieldswe knowwordless wednesdaywoodlandwhite https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2025/08/sunday-saying-yes-to-world.html 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... beyond the fieldswe knowsaying yessundayworld https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2025/04/into-light.html Beyond the Fields We Know: Into the Light White Crocus (Ice Queen) beyond the fieldswe knowlight https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2019/08/thursday-poem-become-becoming.html 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 ... beyond the fieldswe knowthursdaypoembecome https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2017/11/the-lush-and-golden-alcove.html 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... beyond the fieldswe knowlushgoldenalcove https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2022/09/thursday-poem-september-mosaic.html 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... beyond the fieldswe knowthursdaypoemseptember https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/ Beyond the Fields We Know Wild and Earthy Thoughts Gathered Along the Journey beyond the fieldsknow https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2016/06/the-midsummer-moon-of-june.html 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 ... beyond the fieldswe knowmidsummer moonjune https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2019/10/by-butternut-hill.html Beyond the Fields We Know: By Butternut Hill beyond the fieldswe knowbutternuthill https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2018/01/the-sisterhood-of-eye-and-leaf.html?showComment=1516159746769 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 ... beyond the fieldswe knowsisterhoodeyeleaf https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2024/11/yuletide-reading-list.html 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... beyond the fieldswe knowyuletidereadinglist https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2011/06/thursday-poem-camas.html?showComment=1309449409203 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... beyond the fieldswe knowthursdaypoemcamas https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2017/12/sunday-saying-yes-to-world_10.html 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... beyond the fieldswe knowsaying yessundayworld https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2012/05/wild-wonders-all-maying.html?showComment=1337518962095 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... beyond the fieldswe knowwild wondersall a https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2025/10/blog-post.html Beyond the Fields We Know: October Song Wild and Earthy Thoughts Gathered Along the Journey beyond the fieldswe knowoctobersong https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2025/04/sequestered-week-292-ccxcii.html Beyond the Fields We Know: Sequestered, Week 292 (CCXCII) Wild and Earthy Thoughts Gathered Along the Journey beyond the fieldswe knowsequesteredweek https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2022/10/wordless-wednesday-reflection.html Beyond the Fields We Know: Wordless Wednesday - Reflection Wild and Earthy Thoughts Gathered Along the Journey beyond the fieldswe knowwordless wednesdayreflection https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2019/03/sunday-saying-yes-to-world_24.html 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.... beyond the fieldswe knowsaying yessundayworld https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2023/11/eighteen-years-on.html 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... beyond the fieldswe knoweighteenyearsonward https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2009/12/decembers-moon-of-long-nights.html 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... beyond the fieldswe know https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2019/05/friday-ramble-fragile.html 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... beyond the fieldswe knowfridayramblefragile https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2014/07/coming-to-light.html Beyond the Fields We Know: Coming to Light Spatterdock or Yellow Pond Lily (Nuphar polysepala) beyond the fieldswe knowcominglight https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2019/01/thursday-poem-you-reading-this-be-ready.html 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... beyond the fieldswe know https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2018/07/thursday-poem-flying-at-night.html 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 ... beyond the fieldswe knowthursdaypoemflying https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2018/09/small-craft-warnings.html 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... beyond the fieldswe knowsmall crafttornadoswarnings https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2023/11/advent-sun-wheel-week-1.html Beyond the Fields We Know: Advent Sun Wheel, Week 1 Wild and Earthy Thoughts Gathered Along the Journey beyond the fieldswe knowadventsunwheel https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2024/07/sequestered-week-222-ccxxii.html Beyond the Fields We Know: Sequestered, Week 222 (CCXXII) Wild and Earthy Thoughts Gathered Along the Journey beyond the fieldswe knowsequesteredweek https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2011/01/to-years-old-and-new.html 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... beyond the fieldswe knowyears oldnew https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2025/01/espresso-icicles-words-gone-walkabout.html 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... beyond the fieldswe knowespressoicicleswords https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2023/07/asclepius-on-edge.html Beyond the Fields We Know: Asclepius On the Edge Swamp Milkweed or Butterfly Weed (Asclepias incarnata) beyond the fieldswe knowasclepiusedge https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2024/04/sequestered-week-209-ccvix.html 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... beyond the fieldswe knowsequesteredweek https://www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org/2018/10/late-autumn-songs-in-different-key.html?showComment=1540914573518 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... beyond the fieldswe know