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Parasitism
Cree women picking blueberries, 1926. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis. It’s a good year for mulberries. The regular rainfall of last month prompted a frenzy of blooms, and now this small dry spell has...
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The Tupelo and the Ailanthus
Kudzu performing ecological repair in temporarily deforested Athens, GA. Photo from Creative Loafing. We are surrounded by infant old-growth forests. Every woodland that manages to avoid the perils...
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Beautiful Heresies
In The Tobacco Field by Adrian Mealand The morning unfurled out of the east with an orange bloom, reaching narrow fingers along gullies and streamsides, calling brassy through corridors of hickory and...
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Tlalocan
Fragment of a mural of Tlaloc from the city of Teotihuacán. Photo by Hélène de Fays Rain’s been falling for two days. Soft grey clouds hold the warmth of another Indian summer close to the earth....
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Straight Line People
Mohenjo Daro, Sindh, Pakistan “The Yoruba associate line with civilization: ‘ This country has become civilized,’ literally means in Yoruba, ‘this earth has lines upon its face.’” – Clifford Geertz,...
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Birds in the Bush
Juvenile Sharp-Shinned Hawk by yours truly I’ve been noticing a ferocious abundance of hawks lately. Sharp-shinned and Cooper’s mostly, though I’ve heard the cries and seen pairs of circling...
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Sketchbook
“The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but I shall be content if it is judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an...
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Black Cherries
When my neighbor LC passed away, he left a son, a motorcycle, a tangled will, and a small collection of very fine old fruit trees. Fleeing the wrath of avaricious relatives, LC’s wife by all laws of...
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It’s About Time
Graphic from the Long Now Foundation The phrase “think global, act local” has fallen a touch out of favor in these days of press-derided social justice activists and brutal police repression, but the...
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Syrphid Flies
Hover fly, courtesy of the Cornell U. Cooperative Extension Summertime’s full in the fields and woods of Nelson County, Virginia. Here in the lee of the Blue Ridge the chickory flowers blue in the day...
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