Today’s posting will be short and sweet. There’s some good news to report for a change.
- Paul Hawken’s Regeneration has been released and I’ve already got my copy.
- The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, at the direction of the Minnesota Supreme Court, has initiated a contested case hearing on PolyMet’s Permit to Mine. We’ll follow up on this next week we hope.
- Trout Week begins tomorrow
- Orion magazine has an article on Rewilding the Elwha River: Ten Years Later
- While pulling into the drive today, I noticed a small flock of turkeys standing in the middle of the road.
- The kernza pancake and waffle mix arrived in the mail. We’ll try it next week.
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| autumn’s beauty is still developing
Photo by J. Harrington |
On a much more personal and pragmatic level, the self-tapping screw that somehow became embedded in the Jeep’s left rear tire has been removed and the hole repaired. All seems well.
No melancholy days are these!
Not where the maple changing stands,
Not in the shade of fluttering oaks,
Nor in the bands
Of twisting vines and sturdy shrubs,
Scarlet and yellow, green and brown,
Falling, or swinging on their stalks,
Is Sorrow’s crown.
The sparkling fields of dewy grass,
Woodpaths and roadsides decked with flowers,
Starred asters and the goldenrod,
Date Autumn’s hours.
The shining banks of snowy clouds,
Steadfast in the aerial blue,
The silent, shimmering, silver sea,
To Joy are true.
My spirit in this happy air
Can thus embrace the dying year,
And with it wrap me in a shroud
As bright and clear!
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