Pocahontas County Fare

Another holiday postcard from my grandmother's album--an Easter bell with alder catkins and lilies-of-the-valley, postmarked "Presc...

I planted a little patch of lettuce in early February. Most years, such early plantings are unsuccessful--they sprout and freeze, or get w...

I've been reading philosophy and ecology papers, trying to get ahead of my students on the fly with courses I took over mid-semester. Si...

Garden seeds came in the mail today, and, because the ground is bare and workable, I raked some damp soil loose and planted beets and radish...

2011 was a sadly inauspicious year for trees on our ridge. The stag-horn sumac trees did not fare well in the summer, and this happened i...

This week the USDA Agricultural Research Service released its new Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Strangely, I discovered this, not through the ...

Lately, this blog has been heavy computer troubles and sewing project catch-up posts. There's more of both to come. This morning glory f...

My blogging habit crashed and burned last year, but I continued to take sumac pictures for Tree Year 2011 , at least until summer's dry...

After several warm days that made the lilac and rose bushes pop new leaves, winter weather returned. This is the same snowstorm that cau...

It's snowing again today, and the sumac buds are tight shut still. Like other smooth-barked tree species here, the sumacs have l...

Yesterday's sky did not promise spring, and this morning we had snow and sleet. Robins have been visiting the sumac fruits, but the m...

I've never sprouted onion seeds before, and I didn't expect them to be so curly and cute. I hope these will give us better success t...

I knit to create clothing, but the thing I admire about crochet is the variety of pure embellishment you can produce. I especially enjoy cr...

Here's my latest post for The Tree Year. (I think Das Baumjahr has a better ring to it...I may switch.) The sun came out to make ...

These socks are the fourth pair in my series of "Disappointing Silk/Wool Yarns by Rowan." By that, I don't mean the socks ...

Here are more surprises from my mom's box of Kodachrome slides. 1954 is a guess--my parents lived in this house from about 1952 to 195...

Marvin and Sherry clued me in to this interesting project, The Tree Year . Here's how it works: How to start: Pick a tree – eit...

Here's a picture of my grandmother, Florence Williamson Hunt, the postcard collector in my family. The postcard album I've been us...

I don't know whether periwinkle flowers are traditionally associated with Christmas, but the floral holiday cards in my grandma's c...

I believe I stated a while ago that I had plenty of crochet patterns and books on hand, that there was no need for me to spend any money o...