blogging as rhythm play
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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…
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Living Lenses
A leaf snagged in a waterfall, in full sun, covered by the flow but unmoving. Should be possible to photograph, right? Not so fast. Knowing it is underwater, I look through the water, focus on the leaf, and see it in detail. Not so easy for a pocket camera.
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Welcome Heaviness
Weeks to go before frost, and the sun and rain and air and soil incorporated in these seeds already approaches a fullness.
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Well, there’s washing up
Shoes off in shade by the water after a dozen hours on my feet, yes please. Hey, geese, have you left even one square metre without a dropping? The answer was less yes than it looked at first …
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Another Watershed
Before biking to a Pow Wow, looking at the route google maps suggested, I recognized the twisty look of what is called an unimproved road around here for the last leg of the route. Loaded down with tent and panniers, on the day I opted not to add a few kilometres to go via a…
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Editionitiation 0.0.1
A storm will fell this tree, most likely, but with living tissue killed, a space in the woods is already opened up because with limbs bare of leaves, with canopy defunct, light enough for new growth reaches the soil.
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Clement
Near the Great Lakes we get all the weathers, in short spates. Deep freezes, hurricane remnants, droughts, day-long downpours, tornadoes, swelters, ice storms, fog, wind storms, and pleasant days. Most years, most of those. Odd then that for a month now in the middle of the summer we have weeks now of clement weather when…
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Instead Of Stretch Marks
Trees have many ways of making room for growth — what they have in common, is that unlike animals, what’s given away to make room dries out and falls away, rather than being carried away by bodily fluids.
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Verdance
When light and warmth return, green returns. In the woods, green surrounds.