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Slow Down, the Roses Won’t Bloom Without Pollination

March 14, 2015 by Kate Walter

The Fairy Duster, desert spring, growing by a wall.

Monarch butterflies will soon be on the wing. Spring is coming, and they are getting ready to move. I can feel it in the air, the travel urge, because spring softens the air here in Tucson, blowing the dust around and whispering of all the possibilities in the universe.  Get ready to fly! And I’ve…READ MORE >

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Almost Spring

February 24, 2015 by Kate Walter

Fossils seen at a gem show in Tucson.

  Funny how overheard remarks get caught in the memory. A lifetime ago, I published a weekly newspaper in a small rural community, and one day I overheard a nurse in our medical clinic talking about me.  I don’t think she knew I was there in the clinic lobby, while she was one room deeper…READ MORE >

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Always Thinking of Something to Eat

December 30, 2014 by Kate Walter

mystery in cabbage

  Comes a new year, and I find a time to pause in my butterfly report. The holiday season has been pleasantly busy for us at Living Traditional Arts, and part of the activity has been a dispersal of many of the food related paintings from the Living Traditional Arts Shop. Andrew Bick’s food photos…READ MORE >

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Last Summer, Still Looking for Monarchs

December 8, 2014 by Kate Walter

leaves and sunlight by Kate Walter

Last summer in Wisconsin we saw vibrant greens and blues, lit by golden sun through clear pleasant air. I kept watching for the sharp accent of orange and black of the Monarch butterfly, and for a long time I didn’t have much luck. Even on that valley farm so beautiful that we used the word…READ MORE >

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Butterfly Tale Two

November 8, 2014 by Kate Walter

leaves and sunlight by Kate Walter

A brief stop at Bakke Farm, then over one ridge and across two rivers to the beautiful valley farm of a friend who said, yes, she had seen a Monarch this summer. One. It was still July, and I’d been thinking about Monarch butterflies. Her place, grown lush in the moderate summer weather that settled…READ MORE >

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The Butterfly Tale

October 30, 2014 by Kate Walter

We got to Wisconsin in the summer. It was July, and we saw a few fireflies. There was a feeling in the air. I had to ask. “Seen any Monarch butterflies this year?” We visited a lot of people and I asked often. No one said they’d seen more than one, most said, “No, none…READ MORE >

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by Michael Wright

Music in the Wood: Harmonic Forms by Paul Fairchild

I climbed down out of the Crow’s Nest and spent a recent Saturday afternoon worrying a pile of knotty red oak rounds with a maul and wedge, whittling them down to size for the wood stove. As I split them open, I enjoyed seeing the beautiful swirling grains in the wood, exposed to the sunlight…READ MORE >

Beechnuts

Each morning on the way to the barn we walk under the hanging limbs of the great beech tree that stands by the corner of our house. Names and dates carved long ago on the smooth, gray trunk are dark and distorted, barely legible. The tremendous number of beechnuts that grow on a tree this…READ MORE >

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