Kathy in KYHappy to have sold this little painting!
John
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I’m a serial #hobbyist with a scholarly habit. Frequent topics include #gardening, #ethnobotany, #folklore, #religion, #ritual, and #linguistics.
ZinnI earnestly LOVE when my neighbors throw a large and raucous birthday party. They always have a live mariachi band, they sing and chat until late into the night. I hear the echos of their laughter bouncing down the street. The live music, long since ceased, is echoed by a much quieter stream of gently pulsing tuba music and the gradually dimming chatter.
They throw these parties maybe thrice a year. Makes me feel like we are in The Shire. It feels very Intensionally Present.
Janis La CouvéeFellow #citizenscience geeks. What are you working on/contributing to? I volunteer for forage fish surveys on the east coast of Vancouver Island near the 50th parallel. Part of a larger network. https://projectwatershed.ca/2022/10/03/stewardship-groups-from-around-the-salish-sea-come-together-for-forage-fish-conservation/ @citizenscience #sciencechatter
Stewardship Groups from Around the Salish Sea Come Together for Forage Fish Conservation - Project Watershed
Declining salmon runs, starving sea lions and orcas, shrinking seabird communities; a collapsing pacific marine food web is what we face if the forage fish stocks and habitats are depleted along British Columbia’s coasts.
Anyone can raise themselves in my estimation by simply using “practice” instead of “praxis”.
How do medical caregivers most frequently demonstrate my inhumanity to them? With the rattled-off, context-free, braindead questions. Like, every single visit my PCP asks if I have any swelling in my joints. I’ve had debilitating arthritis in most of my joints (by now basically all) since I was 16. It’s all over my chart and body. Glance at ANY part of me and see a swollen joint. I usually just laugh at this point and raise my gnarled hands.
Here’s the thing about Westphalian pumpernickel… this smells amazing right now. And it smelled amazing in the oven for 24 hours (!!!). But it will be 48 more hours until I can taste it.
A very rough adaptation of Stanley Ginsberg’s recipe in The Rye Baker. First attempt; I’m just glad that nightmare of a dough held together!
If all I do with my life is love the people I wanted to love, I think it will have been enough.
For a first attempt, I was surprised at how well this whole grain focaccia turned out! I didn’t really expect to see a recognizable focaccia crumb, but there it is — even the springyness between the teeth. The recipe is from “Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Breads,” but using Kamut wheat, a tetraploid species related to durum.
I expect to use this often, topped with random veg, to use up odd harvests this year.
Megan Lynch (she/her)Good illustration in the Student Farm Garden of something I've seen in my own garden - the range of form traits a species can have depending on competition with nearby plants. The grasses growing seedheads near the fava beans would probably not grow so tall if they were not either interplanted with or volunteering near the fava beans. #gardening
It always delights me to observe how well Capsicum annuum competes with C. chinense on productivity, despite (typically) having 1 flower per node versus 2-4. These close siblings faced selection pressure for high productivity and arrived at entirely different, but similarly effective, results.