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After two weeks of rainy weather, the past two days have been 100% clear, topping out at 67 degrees yesterday and 72 today.  We had 36.2 this morning, but it still hasn’t frozen and there is no colder weather predicted.  … Continue reading →

On Sunday we set out in a light rain to our best chanterelle spot in the coast range.  We found that someone else had been there first and the mushrooms are (so far) not as abundant as last year, but … Continue reading →

John set out early for the coast and returned with a 12 pound Coho salmon and two big Dungeness crabs.  They formed the backbone of a delicious dinner, rounded out with mashed potatoes, fresh greens, and lemon-ginger pound cake (thank … Continue reading →

I posted 83 photos in four photo essays providing a hyperspeed overview of 2011 so far.  Find them at 2011 photos and EPA STAR conference. A few months ago my old friend Chelsea Little from my summer in Colorado started … Continue reading →

Two years ago Blogger stopped supporting FTP publishing, effectively killing my blog.  With my recent installation of WordPress, it is now back online.  Hopefully I’ll have time to create some new photo essays as well…

With my lab class just completed, my most recent woodworking project completed, and a dripping rain falling, I found myself with nothing pressing to do on this Saturday. So I thought I might work on a long-overdue update to my … Continue reading →

Ebba found a place selling U-pick blueberries for $1.25 per pound just south of town. We picked for about two hours and came home with 24 pounds of berries for $30. We have been eating our fill all day, and … Continue reading →

I have been accumulating quite a backlog of pictures to be posted, and today I finally decided to do something about that… Anyway, for photos and stories, visit my Photo Essays page. There are four new essays (a total of … Continue reading →

It is coming up on two years since leaving Carleton, and already it seems so much longer than that. I feel old now – not as though I am aging (though losing my hair doesn’t help) – but old in … Continue reading →

Academia – for all its movement toward sustainability – remains steeped in the old model that nature can be reduced to objective phenomena and that, by including environmental harm among those phenomena and fitting the best computer model, we can … Continue reading →