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Bird tidings
Yes, I do still visit the crows. And, wonder of wonders, they recognise me. Though they seem to have moved their preferred locales. Divo,...

Crone
Sep 301 min read
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Deal with what is now now
On my way around the wood, I received a work related email that upset me. I dashed to Kairos who accepted my emotional state and curled...

Crone
Sep 291 min read
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Coiled in the bowl of a tree
Someone had put the makeshift step (part of one of the felled oaks) back against the Cover Mother Oak. So, I took the opportunity to...

Crone
Sep 281 min read
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Pests and diseases
This is one of the trees who had Acute Oak Decline. The cut wood shows the damage. The heart of the oak broken. There are two completely...

Crone
Sep 271 min read
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The Majestic Oak
The Majestic Oak said, "What do you want of me?" Not grudgingly or in frustration, but simply. It was just a question. I said something...

Crone
Sep 261 min read
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Something to smile about
Not Tane, but at least I got a nice photo. The AI thing is ongoing and this week is a bit busy with rugby stuff, so forgive me if I just...

Crone
Sep 252 min read
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Just missed it...
Well, the post is close to the Autumn Equinox, AKA Mabon or the Second Harvest. I have mentioned the vast numbers of acorns - there are...

Crone
Sep 242 min read
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Unshy crowns
I finally made it to visit my Sentinel Trees on the other side of the Reserve. Two of them are an oak and an ash whose crowns collide. On...

Crone
Sep 233 min read
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Kairos on Earth-centrism
The picture on the front is "something" I saw in the wood. I think it's a piece of tree. I also saw very cool black fungi... More acorns...

Crone
Sep 222 min read
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Tree art
I saw a patch of completely smooth earth. As first I thought it was a deer scrape - but the deer make their scrapes on the lee side of...

Crone
Sep 211 min read
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It's not over...
I had a brief time with Tane! I don't know where his territory is, but it's a matter of luck if he can sneak in when I am there. Boy, was...

Crone
Sep 201 min read
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A little personality
You've got to love a gargoyle. If water spouts out of the mouth, they are gargoyles; if not, they are grotesques. In either case, I...

Crone
Sep 191 min read
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More shadows
I do seem to find shadows pleasing... which reminds me that for years I have possessed Junichiro Tanizaki's In Praise of Shadows but I...

Crone
Sep 181 min read
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More things on trees
Regarding the webs yesterday, moth guru Mischa says probably ermine moths and those were just the discarded husks. So, there you have it....

Crone
Sep 171 min read
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Shrouded
OK, so i went to Oxford and that included, of course, looking at some trees. And I have never seen this before! Willows literally...

Crone
Sep 161 min read
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The wonder shelves
These shelves in my kitchen hold a plethora of mainly found objects. Stones and feathers and acorns and leaves. They are little instances...

Crone
Sep 151 min read
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Making something of nothing
Times are, as ever, hard in Crone-World. Look, OK, I'm not like starving or wearing literal rags or suffering from a terminal illness or...

Crone
Sep 141 min read
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Eye eye, gee gee
The pony would not move. He was leaning over the kissing gate and I had to raise his head to open the gate and pass through. This is not...

Crone
Sep 131 min read
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Eye eye
I did get a better image of the squirrel, but the garden critters remain elusive. I do at least hear the robins. Well, I hear the...

Crone
Sep 121 min read
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Ay Eye
That is a picture of a squirrel climbing down a tree. I grab hold of the real world with just such tenacity. And down I go. But the...

Crone
Sep 111 min read
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