Our carbon footprint
When talking about climate change, footprint is a metaphor for the total impact that something has. And carbon is a shorthand for all the different greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. The term...
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The place with all the trees: then and now
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets Crack...
The place with all the trees: then …
“The place with all the trees.” Soon after we moved here three decades ago a local said that about our place. Back then all the trees on our property were near the house and...
Leaf fall at Little Owl Gully: Part Two
All summer [a tree] feeds [its leaves] so they can process sunlight, but in the dog days of summer the tree begins pulling nutrients back into its trunk and roots, pares down, and gradually...
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