Pauline and the guineas, unhappy with the white stuff
First snow for the new chickens and guineas. The guineas were not pleased, and spent half the morning voicing their complaints.
First snow means of course first snow man
And the first snow means I can still get my gardening jones fixed, as it was toasty and warm in here. I need to compose a sonnet, describing my love of this greenhouse.
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"We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it."
--from an essay in "The Long-Legged House""The word agriculture, after all, does not mean "agriscience," much less "agribusiness." It means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the root of the sense both of culture and of cult. The ideas of tillage and worship are thus joined in culture. And these words all come from an Indo-European root meaning both "to revolve" and "to dwell." To live, to survive on the earth, to care for the soil, and to worship, all are bound at the root to the idea of a cycle. It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term "agribusiness."
"Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating."
--both the above are from essays in "The Art of the Commonplace: Agrarian Essays"Is this so hard to believe?
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You could get a second job as a bird photographer. Really nice.
Love the photos! We get one snow day a year here, and last year we didn’t get it at all, so these pictures are a sight for sore eyes.
Lucky girl getting all that snow. Love the snowman too. CAn’t wait to read “Ode to Greenhouse”.
oh my goodness El – that’s a lot of snow! we only got a shprinkling. you must have had a cozy holiday!
excellent photo of the fowl btw. 🙂
Oh, man, what fun!!! Not likely to get much white stuff down here in Florida, so I’ll have to live vicariously through all you folks who’re getting such a great snow 🙂
CC: Sometimes, they cooperate. But I am glad I am digital and not wasting film on them.
Pattie: I would really miss snow if we didn’t have it!
Lisa: I am working up to the ode, believe me.
Gigi: Thanks! Snow’s mostly gone now though, boo-hoo.
Robbyn: Glad to hear from you! I love the white stuff, especially when it is new and novel.
is your greenhouse designed on Elliot COleman’s plans? It looks familiar.
Gaile: Yes and no. It’s a commercial greenhouse, but I am doing what Coleman suggests. I will give all the greenhouse stats in a later post.