Category Archives: nature

First Snow — Come and Gone

Posted on November 5, 2023 by Dave Fisher

On the first of November, we awoke to a few inches of snow. The familiar trees and plants along the trails had been transformed. Ephemeral ropes of snow clung impossibly to the thinnest branches. I had time to take a … Continue reading →

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Back to Those Three Spoons

Posted on October 6, 2023 by Dave Fisher

In April, I wrote a post about riving three spoon blanks from branch crooks. I finally got around to carving the finished spoons. All were carved from black cherry. In the shot above, you can see the difference in the … Continue reading →

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September Trees and Flowers

Posted on September 20, 2023 by Dave Fisher

Everybody should own a tree at this time of year. Or a valley full of trees, or a whole hillside. Not legally, in the formal way of “Know all men . . .” and “heirs and assigns” written on a … Continue reading →

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Amy Lowell’s Green Bowl

Posted on August 16, 2023 by Dave Fisher

Ever since encountering Amy Lowell‘s Imagist poem The Green Bowl, published in her first poetry collection in 1912, I had wondered about it. Was it inspired by an actual bowl? If so, does it still exist? Who was Roger, the … Continue reading →

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My (New?) Workbench

Posted on July 6, 2023 by Dave Fisher

What you see above is the face frame/apron from my old workbench. Southern yellow pine 2x6s joined with mortises and tenons, with a sliding deadman in the middle. I had made this as an addition to my old bench several … Continue reading →

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Transitions

Posted on June 10, 2023 by Dave Fisher

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been getting a few jobs done at the new place as part of the settling-in process. One of them was the fencing-in of a small area in the back to allow our dog, … Continue reading →

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Bright Bowl

Posted on April 15, 2023 by Dave Fisher

Saw a king fisher on a tree over the water. Does not its arrival mark some new movement in its finny prey? He the bright buoy that betrays it! Henry David Thoreau, Journal Entry, April 11, 1856 As I was … Continue reading →

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Windfalls and Wheelbarrows

Posted on April 12, 2023 by Dave Fisher

High winds blew over a lot of trees in our area in two separate episodes recently. The tall maple in the photo stood strong in round one but was toppled in the second. Fortunately, it missed the shed — just. … Continue reading →

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Marvels in the Mud

Posted on January 19, 2023 by Dave Fisher

Other than a few days of really cold temperatures, things have been mild around here this winter, with more rain than snow. You’d better have your galoshes on for a tromp across open ground. Saturday, temperatures dropped down to about … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving Time

Posted on November 24, 2022 by Dave Fisher

One thing about late Autumn, it displays the stubborn simplicities of the earth. Man may contrive himself into all kinds of human complications, but this earth which bore him and will be his home until the end of his days … Continue reading →

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