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Nature

Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and the Ghosts of Key West

Key Westโ€™s physical beauty draws tourists like a magnet, but the locals, or Conchs, give the island heart. The Conchs are people who have always been there or who have broken free from the centripetal pull of the Lower 48. In one sense, they live in a different country of their own creation, one that epitomizes the

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Pleasures of the Nose

A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal. Fragrance speaks to many

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Cutting Down

โ€œWidespread frost expected,โ€ warns the forecaster. Itโ€™s past sunset. Weโ€™ve already had a morning of shimmering windshields. Hauling containers full of fragile plants into shelter for the night takes a lot of effort, and for what few days until the next crystalline visit. So, I decide to take my chances by draping everything in old

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Celebrating in the Dark

Iโ€™m about to commit a sacrilege. Read on out of sheer, audacious curiosity, or safely avert your eyes. Itโ€™s all the same to me. Friends in Alaska, Puget Sound, the Midwest, and the East Coast brace yourselves. Here goes: The winter sun in Colorado stares everyone in the eyes. Itโ€™s a cheer monger. A brilliant

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The Mongolian Takhi: Honoring the Spirit Horse

The sky stretches forever in every direction and a biting wind adds to the feeling of loneliness. Meager grasses blow in the breeze like strange fingers trying to catch hold of the sun. A lone hawk calls in the distances as it sweeps and dips over the sloping grasslands of the arid Mongolian Steppe. The

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Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and the Ghosts of Key West

Key Westโ€™s physical beauty draws tourists like a magnet, but the locals, or Conchs, give the island heart. The Conchs are people who have always been there or who have broken free from the centripetal pull of the Lower 48. In one sense, they live in a different country of their own creation, one that epitomizes the

Read More ยป

Pleasures of the Nose

A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal. Fragrance speaks to many

Read More ยป

Cutting Down

โ€œWidespread frost expected,โ€ warns the forecaster. Itโ€™s past sunset. Weโ€™ve already had a morning of shimmering windshields. Hauling containers full of fragile plants into shelter for the night takes a lot of effort, and for what few days until the next crystalline visit. So, I decide to take my chances by draping everything in old

Read More ยป

Celebrating in the Dark

Iโ€™m about to commit a sacrilege. Read on out of sheer, audacious curiosity, or safely avert your eyes. Itโ€™s all the same to me. Friends in Alaska, Puget Sound, the Midwest, and the East Coast brace yourselves. Here goes: The winter sun in Colorado stares everyone in the eyes. Itโ€™s a cheer monger. A brilliant

Read More ยป

The Mongolian Takhi: Honoring the Spirit Horse

The sky stretches forever in every direction and a biting wind adds to the feeling of loneliness. Meager grasses blow in the breeze like strange fingers trying to catch hold of the sun. A lone hawk calls in the distances as it sweeps and dips over the sloping grasslands of the arid Mongolian Steppe. The

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