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Beavers and other matters
Last night, we visited the wetland we so enjoyed during the summer. The flood in September curtailed our visits for awhile; we went in maybe a week after the flood, and it was…
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Reflections on Marilynne Robinson’s essays
By the standards of my generation, all my life I have gone to church with a kind of persistence, as I do to this day. Once recently I found myself traveling all night…
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November woods
Today, I found myself alone with the freedom to do whatever I wanted. Isn’t that wonderful? I chose to go for a walk — and right away it was apparent that I wasn’t…
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Applesauce 2011
Last week, we picked the apples. On Saturday, we converted them into our preferred form: 47 quarts of applesauce. Everyone participated; the girls did much more this year — running the apple corer/slicer,…
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Spring and fall
I took some photos of landscapes in the spring and commented that they looked quite autumnal. Now it’s fall, and I’ve gone back and photographed them again. There’s this one: Then there’s this…
