Rusty Ring

If you don't know Peter Mayer , you should know Peter Mayer. He's one of those artists (like Sherman Alexie and Regina Spektor...

( Gaultheria shallon . Beautiful, almost grape-sized specimens, growing in full sun. One of the season's sweetest blessings.)

Zen is famous for its koans, those quirky, inscrutable Chinese stories that make no sense but are somehow profoundly true. My own devotio...

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  (Western red cedar. About 7 feet in diameter and 15 feet tall. The notches are for the springboards they stuck in to reach the narro...

It's July, the month when blog readership drops to single digits and (by sheer coïncidence) I upload another year's worth of rock...

(Early 20th century. Boom.)