blogging as rhythm play
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Invitation
The Invitation is, just stay with this So many moments will be also yours Like this: here and wondrous, just focus With ease: no hunt can force what already Flows: will you welcome this now that visits?
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Overwintering and then …
Some instance says yes, and now Waiting is done, germination begun With urgent tender let’s get started Embodying generational resurgence: The seed is dead, long live Maples
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Making Room
From seed to fullest growth, flowering trees add bark alongside wood each time they thaw … and a full sized tree won’t fit inside the bark made in the first years. It’s a process, one that birch threes show so well. Sometimes, decades of process show side-by-side: In one sunny autumn afternoon, in one small…
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Leaves Astream
Leaves aren’t aquatic, but at the turn of the season, they begin to fall more than occasionally, and some of them get snagged in the river for a while. Many moods.
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Culmination
This is what the blossoms were about all along.
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As Ferns Do
A splayed array, together yet reaching, axial yet partitioned, drinker of light, a delight.
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Companion Way
A burst of colour, joy to the eye, signal to the bees.
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Once And Future Soil
Storms take some leaves before trees were done with them for the season. In a late summer out of time, too late to be so like spring, too warm to yet be autumn, this leaf got an early start returning to dirt.
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What Mandelbrot Said
Picture Benoit Mandelbrot giving a talk about fractals to a rapt audience of math and computer people in 1982, when computer graphics as we know them had advanced enough to show not only a plot of the Mandelbrot set, but a variety of applications of fractal mathematics to simulated landscapes — prompting an aside about…