Phenology Daybook: May 29, 2020

“Sit in your cell as in paradise,” stated the 11th century monk, St. Romuald. “Put…Read more n The post Watching Romuald appeared first on Poor Will’s Almanack by Bill Felker. n]]>

August 3rd The 215th Day of the Year   The backyard overgrown with wild grape,…Read more n The post Phenology Daybook: August 3, 2020 appeared first on Poor Will’s Almanack by Bill Felker. n]]>

In his poem, “Gardens,” the Spanish author, Jorge Guillen, suggests that the strata of deep time are cumulative and that such compression and blending bring years and events together, meld them and make the soul. ‘In these essays, most of which I wrote for my column in the Yellow Springs News, I look for those…

What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to…Read more n The post Pure Lepidoptery appeared first on Poor Will’s Almanack by Bill Felker. n]]>

“An inevitable dualism bisects nature,” states Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essay, ‘Compensation,’ “so that…Read more n The post Half is Whole appeared first on Poor Will’s Almanack by Bill Felker. n]]>

A Memoir in Nature and a Handbook for the Month, Being a Personal Narrative and Synthesis of Common Events in Nature between 1981 and 2023 in Southwestern Ohio, with Applications for the Lower Midwest and Middle Atlantic Region, Containing Weather Guidelines and a Variety of Natural Calendars, Reflections by the Author and Seasonal Quotations from…