With the return of rain in the forecast, the apple farmers are making piles of trimmings from a later than usual winter pruning. Delaying the blossoms this way helps to ensure a healthy crop and timely harvest of apples this fall. ivermectin cream long term use ???? ???????? These trees are not sprayed, so the […]
Category Archives: studio process
River Delta Genius
Though in decline in practice across the world, the patterns of seasonal subsistance still capture the imagination, evidenced in this image from the Sacramento River Delta, culled from the archives of the Department of Fish and Game. I’m interested in reviving this scale of self-sufficiency. * _uacct = “UA-4252294-1”; urchinTracker();
Willow’s Bob
Grazing cattle keep the willow’s bob perfectly trimmed.
Empyreal Sea Glass
I delight as much in finding a piece of blue sea glass during a drizzly walk on Doran Beach as might an exogeologist upon discovering tektite in the cratered sands of the Sahara or the volcanic dusts of Venus.
Outbuildings of West Sonoma
My favorite buildings around here tend to be ruins, left to dissolve back into the land from which they sprung, not unlike orchard tree prunings or rusted jalopies in a culvert. There appears to be a consensus among local commercial farmers to not repair or maintain buildings once their function has been rendered obsolete by […]
Steady Hand of Chaos
There are rare times when I find myself aware of what I am doing or making as though I am watching myself and all else momentarily recedes. It is in this state that I am most attuned to the graceful and Steady Hand of Chaos.
Shop Shrine
I love my portable drawing cabinet, built by H. Gerstner & Sons in Dayton, Ohio about fifty years ago. It has developed into something of a Shop Shrine, a catch-all for small, meaningful, or valuable things- my treasures. I did not intend for this to happen, but now that I think of it I realize […]