Month: March 2023
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Greek Pottery: Soldier-Head Aryballos (E. Greek, 600-575BCE)
A surprisingly adorable hoplite-headed Eastern Greek oil flask, c600-575BCE.
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 5: Dainty Desert Hideseed (Eucrypta micrantha)
Little flowers with an unusually great scientific name!
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It Is Not Yours, Part 4 (of 4) (with audio)
The final part of a poem in four parts: #geology (#rockhounding), #ancientHistory and the #present together.
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Cardboard Art: Feather/Wildflower
CardboardArt/CardboardMosaic: is it a feather or a flower? I’m into it either way!
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It Is Not Yours, Part 3 (of 4) (with audio)
Part 3 of a poem in four parts: geology (rockhounding), ancient history and the present together.
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 3: Lil White Bells (Arizona Jewelflower)
Part 3: lil white flowers that look kind of like bells. Arizona Jewelflower (Streptanthus carinatus ssp. arizonicus)
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It Is Not Yours, Part 2 (of 4) (with audio)
Part II of a poem in four parts: geology (rockhounding), ancient history and the present together.
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The Oaks are our mothers (Zonas of Sardis, AP 9.312, 1st CE)
A translation of an unusual epigram attributed to Zonas of Sardis advising against chopping down oaks.
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 2: yellow and purple meadows
What an astonishing show being put on in the Sonoran Desert right now! An explosion of yellow (Gordon’s Bladderpod [link to swbiodiversity.org]), punctuated by a purplish flower (Phacelia distans(?) or else Phacelia crenulata(?) [both links to Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center]), all the more precious for its sparing presence. Robin Wall Kimmerer has a chapter…
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