Rusty Ring

My practice tends to veer back and forth between sitting and teachings, and acting and responding. Sometimes mostly one, sometimes the ...

(Paonias excaecatus.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

Today's top headline: "Free-range Buddhist Eaten By Health-Conscious Cougar." – Haiku written eleven years ago, in ant...

(This is Pseudacris regilla again . He's appeared here in the past, but this one is about the size of my thumbnail, part of a cr...

« Ce qu'il faut de saleté pour faire une fleur! » Félix Leclerc (English translation here .) (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons...

(I found this large round growth, which when dry closely resembles a dried gourd, on a garry oak [Quercus garryana] at the Fort Eaton mon...

Ah, July . That glorious month when northern Zen loosens up and Rusty Ring vacates from seriousness. Seriously. I look forward to thi...