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    The frost is on the pumpkin

    28 December 2019

    Thoughts about a rural pumpkin patch in the Michigan countryside, early one cold October morning.

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    White tree mushroom on Box Elder

    27 December 2019

    The interweb seems to think this is a specimen of Elm Oyster. But it would be unwise to identify mushrooms by the wisdom of the crowd. ...

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  • Oct 31, 2024 License to travel
  • Oct 05, 2024 Don’t let go of the Wickelfisch
  • Feb 18, 2024 Lost and found
  • Dec 31, 2023 No room for cream, please
  • Dec 26, 2023 The year of the sycamore
  • Sep 05, 2023 It’s a Solidago party
  • Aug 17, 2023 Allie-Ann
  • Aug 14, 2023 What’s going to happen to this 1870 schoolhouse?
  • Aug 13, 2023 An ounce of prevention
  • Jul 05, 2023 Memoirs of a black raspberry
  • Jul 01, 2023 Would you buy a can of ripe green tomatoes?
  • Jun 18, 2023 Lone tree goes to town
  • May 08, 2023 The sound of a single tree
  • Mar 19, 2023 Roundabout ways
  • Feb 03, 2023 The meltdown of the aluminum can
  • Dec 26, 2022 Subverting office culture with onion skins
  • Dec 20, 2022 A stroll through Old Rawsonville
  • Nov 12, 2022 The patience of the projectile point
  • Sep 14, 2022 Knocking off wild apples
  • Sep 01, 2022 Postmodernism and the family farm
  • Aug 08, 2022 A day with the freight agents at Willow Run
  • Jul 05, 2022 The proof is in the packaging
  • Jun 25, 2022 Dryad’s saddle
  • Jun 19, 2022 The last shift at Cunningham’s
  • May 09, 2022 The forcing function of fire
  • Apr 28, 2022 Last exit to Rawsonville
  • Apr 10, 2022 The extraordinary, ordinary postcard
  • Mar 17, 2022 Below Susterka Lake
  • Mar 06, 2022 Excursion to an unexplained hickory grove
  • Mar 03, 2022 Finding freedom in steamed pasta
  • Feb 21, 2022 January 6th – a poem
  • Feb 17, 2022 An open letter to the National Weather Service
  • Nov 12, 2021 Revenge of the wrong-side mailbox
  • Nov 10, 2021 The insistent bounty of the mini pumpkin
  • Nov 01, 2021 Waiting at Field, B.C. – Part Two
  • Oct 27, 2021 Waiting at Field, B.C.
  • Oct 22, 2021 The pageant of the unopened page
  • Oct 18, 2021 Most people don’t know about cottonwood bark
  • Oct 17, 2021 Loma de Oro
  • Oct 13, 2021 Potatoes
  • Oct 10, 2021 The chimney on Mill Lane
  • Jul 24, 2021 Arduous task of pioneer was grubbing stumps
  • Jul 05, 2021 Yes, you can eat ornamental popcorn
  • Jul 05, 2021 Barley an inch
  • Jul 04, 2021 Bright orange flower: Butterfly Weed
  • Jul 02, 2021 Dead man’s fingers
  • Jun 27, 2021 Old Rawsonville : Setting the record straight
  • Jun 17, 2021 Scourge of the forest: Oriental Bittersweet
  • Jun 16, 2021 How to make maple syrup over a fire
  • Jun 14, 2021 Rise your bread with sweet-corn meal
  • Jun 14, 2021 The ongoing saga of the one-way produce box
  • Jun 12, 2021 The wirebound crate: Poised for an unexpected comeback?
  • Jun 11, 2021 Daisy fleabane and heath aster: fraternal twin sisters
  • Oct 28, 2020 Can you freeze eggs in the shell? Yes you can
  • Feb 29, 2020 So, Vincent Van Gogh walks into a bar…
  • Jan 12, 2020 Failing in public
  • Jan 11, 2020 Dandelions into wine
  • Jan 10, 2020 A pasture of Pasture Thistle
  • Jan 09, 2020 January: Time to cut spiles
  • Jan 08, 2020 Don’t grow so close to me
  • Jan 07, 2020 A moment with the grass-carrying wasp
  • Jan 06, 2020 The practically unobtainable chocolate Nobel medal
  • Jan 05, 2020 Pre-soaking pasta saves energy, water, and time
  • Jan 04, 2020 A case study in sustainable packaging: Why can’t all soap be packaged like this?
  • Jan 03, 2020 There’s no longer an excuse for plastic utensils
  • Jan 02, 2020 Who is Hilda M?
  • Jan 01, 2020 Should everyone keep a journal?
  • Dec 31, 2019 Wildflowers, 25 July 2019
  • Dec 30, 2019 Where the Codd stopper lives on
  • Dec 29, 2019 Very level to Ypsilanti
  • Dec 28, 2019 The frost is on the pumpkin
  • Dec 27, 2019 White tree mushroom on Box Elder
  1. Judith Ann Oddo on Below Susterka Lake28 August 2024

    For the summer (act 2) I stayed with my girlfriend & family in Belleville--Huron River Drive. She was visiting her…

  2. Gina Joslin on A day with the freight agents at Willow Run4 August 2024

    Thank you for this elegant essay on what people take note of and the eventualities of life. It moved me...…

  3. Mike on Below Susterka Lake9 July 2024

    Thank you, Angelle - great to hear from a relative of the author of this great book! I went back…

  4. Angelle Horste on Below Susterka Lake9 July 2024

    Just a small note: It’s Cathy L. Horste, not Cathy S. Horste. (I’m her daughter.)

  5. Anonymous on Roundabout ways5 July 2024

    Accidents actually increase in roundabouts.

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