Monthly Archives: December 2009
New Year’s Molt
Molting is a hell of a process–uncomfortable, exhausting, even ugly–but aren’t we ready to be shed of those vestiges and welcome whatever comes next? Continue reading
Filed under Flockkeeping
Giving summer for Christmas
It’s the summer harvest at its ripest peak, sealed and delivered for the holidays. Continue reading
Filed under Feasting, Making things, Putting Up
The Winter Garden: Waiting
The garden is dead; long live the garden. Continue reading
Each little inch
I love the smell of a hand-knitted garment: a mammal combination of lanolin and the scent of the knitter, her lotion, soap, skin–it’s the odor of life itself. Continue reading
Filed under Making things