Review of Bill Felker’s Deep Time Is in the Garden

June 21st The 172nd Day of the Year The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,…Read more n The post appeared first on Poor Will’s Almanack by Bill Felker. n]]>

I was walking Bella, our border collie, through the High Street alley this morning around a quarter after nine. The maples were turning, the redbuds and the hackberries half down, the honeysuckles full of berries. At the Limestone Street entrance, I could hear starlings and grackles ahead of me to the north, and I hurried…

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…

June 2nd The 153rd Day of the Year   When June is here – what…Read more n The post Phenology Daybook: June 2, 2020 appeared first on Poor Will’s Almanack by Bill Felker. n]]>

April 24th The 114th Day of the Year Salve ver optatum, amantibus gratum, gaudiorum fax…Read more n The post Phenology Daybook: April 24, 2020 appeared first on Poor Will’s Almanack by Bill Felker. n]]>

December 1 – 10 When sunset reaches its earliest time of the year, the brittle…Read more n The post Phenology Journal: Early Winter appeared first on Poor Will’s Almanack by Bill Felker. n]]>