Rusty Ring

Travelling so far so long in isolated country produces a kind of elation. The muttering millions bugger off, leaving you in boundless ...

(The giving season. Morels [Morchela conica] and fresh asparagus.)

Me at my station. Note how state-of-the-art it looks now that I've replaced all the knobs with rotary encoders. Last year, after ...

(My mother's neighbour is Korean, and every spring I see her in her front yard, drying great quantities of bracken fiddlehead...

Lots of videos on the old blog lately. Down no doubt to the fact that much of my audio-visual consumption comes from YouTube these day...

(Lady fern [Athyrium filix-femina] shoots. Blessing of the season.)

spring breeze... packed with people the mountain temple Issa (Photo courtesy of Maria Yamaguchi and Wikimedia Commons.)