Up early to check on the status of Edouard…Looks like a miss for my house…Heading inland already on the Louisiana border.  Should miss the majority of the Houston area, rain and moderate winds only. Sherry has headed for work already…Television on, radar on the monitor…
Happy Birthday Wendell Berry
It’s the birthday of Wendell Berry, born in [...]

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Around these parts most of our ripened fruit happened a month or better ago. The only thing  still to come are the pecans in the fall. Even so the following resonates…
The Suburban Life - Thinking Ahead - Editorial - NYTimes.com
It’s a good year for blueberries.
Decades ago, a farmer planted more than a dozen bushes on [...]

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Ever since Sept. 11, I have been of a contrarian. I never felt that the date had changed anything other than our own misguided perception of our own safety. A perception I did not share then. Now I read that my views are shared by, at least some of, those who study the area in [...]

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The Rural Life - Editorial - Summer’s Night - Editorial - NYTimes.com
The last couple of nights I’ve stood at the edge of the pasture watching the fireflies. They rise from the grass, flickering higher and higher until one of them turns into the blinking lights of a jet flying eastward far above the horizon. I [...]

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