SUMMER 2021: A VIEW FROM HERE, DORMANCY
One entrance to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden, Bar Harbor, Maine In the long hot, dry, summer, often accentuated by the acute...
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MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
A View From Here is the monthly newsletter/update I send out to subscribers towards the end of each month. These include botanical thoughts and ramblings, information on upcoming events, sometimes book or garden reviews not able to be featured on Cultivating Place, and direct links to the past month's audio programs.
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A VIEW FROM HERE
Our monthly email newsletter archive
- Jun 5
JUNE: A VIEW FROM HERE - TO SIEVE & TO RIDDLE
Lizard flower-surfing the Thyme pots. It has been very hot here, and when you look at the weather forecast in the morning it is prefaced...
- May 8
MAY: A VIEW FROM HERE - GROUNDING & THE MYTH OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY
Barefoot with the scented geraniums. May 2021 My friend Susan Wooldridge, the poet, walks barefoot as often as she can - the bottom of...
- Apr 3
THE LESSON IS THE PLACE....APRIL: A VIEW FROM HERE
California native fiddleneck. Butte County, Ca; March 2021. On April 1st I had the great pleasure and unique experience of presenting for...
- Mar 3
'EXPERIMENT OF GREEN' MARCH, A VIEW FROM HERE
Carpets of violets - Butte County, CA 2021 March has arrived with all her colorful flirty beginning overtures toward Spring. These...
- Jan 31
ADAPTING and ADAPTATIONS: FEBRUARY, A VIEW FROM HERE
White and Greenleaf Manzanita winter foliage - Butte County CA, January 2021 Did you have a chance to listen to my interview with Karen...
- Jan 2
PROVIDENCE AND CIRCULARITY: A NEW YEAR'S VIEW FROM HERE
The circularity of the Moon and Her Cycles I have been reading and thinking about the concept of circular economies. Which is...
- Dec 2, 2020
TENDING TOWARD THE WINTER SOLSTICE: DECEMBER 2020 A VIEW FROM HERE
The very interesting alchemy that has been 2020 is in its final month. One of the most inspirational things I have done in my 55 years...
- Oct 30, 2020
HIGH SEED SEASON, NOVEMBER 2020 A VIEW FROM HERE
A charismatic megaseed of my seedshed - the California buckeye. Glossy and bright, well nestled into the oak leaf litter. It is high seed...
- Oct 7, 2020
THE CALL OF CREATIVITY: OCTOBER, A VIEW FROM HERE
The dynamic life of the oak woodland floor: Turkey Tail, Oak Leaves and Acorns. Food and medicine for all. Creativity has been on my mind...
- Sep 3, 2020
THE CIRCLE OF LOVE'S LABORS: SEPTEMBER A VIEW FROM HERE
The Kind Generosity of Late Summer Basil. Butte County, CA September 1, 2020 This summer, for some reason, I have been enjoying a...
- Aug 5, 2020
AESTIVATION (or how to spend the late summer): AUGUST, A VIEW FROM HERE 2020
California native buckeye foliage going summer deciduous as an energy saving mechanism in the heat of late summer. Butte County, CA...
- Jul 3, 2020
THE HEART OF THE GARDEN (SEASON): JULY, A VIEW FROM HERE 2020
California native bleeding heart (Dicentra formosa) in the heart of the season. Trinity Alps Willderness June 2020 "History, Geography,...
- Jun 3, 2020
A VIEW FROM HERE, JUNE 2020
Writer, Jamaica Kincaid in her home garden, Vermont, PHOTO by Rob Woolmington. Dear friends, It is the garden world that I live in, work...
- Apr 30, 2020
MOTHERING THE FUTURE: MAY 2020, A VIEW FROM HERE
Lessons in Campsite Entomology & Observation: My sister Sabrina, my mother, and me. Paonia, CO circa 1967 "Will you sign this book for my...
- Apr 3, 2020
ROOTED: APRIL 2020, A VIEW FROM HERE
POTTING UP ROOTED CUTTINGS, EARLY APRIL - BUTTE COUNTY, CA I am essentially a homebody. I always have been. At this stage of my life, I...
- Mar 3, 2020
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH - THE EARTH IN OUR HANDS: MARCH 2020 A VIEW FROM HERE
LEFT TO RIGHT: JANET SLUIS, KRISTEN WICKERT, JENNIFER JEWELL, ANNIE HAYES, YOLANDA BURRELL, CLARE COOPER MARCUS, LESLIE BENNETT...
- Feb 4, 2020
IN COMMON: FEBRUARY 2020 A VIEW FROM HERE
Ahhh it is February – the first full moon, the first new moon, and the Lunar New Year are behind us. The novelty of 2020 has settled into...
- Jan 3, 2020
PRESENCE & SIGHT, JANUARY 2020 A VIEW FROM HERE
The road ahead is not at all clear as we enter this New Year & New Year. Or, as much as it ever can be, is it in fact pretty darn clear?...
- Dec 2, 2019
THE CO-EVOLUTIONARY NATURE OF LOVE: DECEMBER, A VIEW FROM HERE
Many mornings I start my day with a mind-clearing walk with my partner, up the road from his home of 40 years. We walk for 15 – 30...
- Nov 4, 2019
AND NOW: NOVEMBER, A VIEW FROM HERE
I’m so excited to send this update! My first book, The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants will be...
- Oct 4, 2019
RELATED: OCTOBER, A VIEW FROM HERE
This last month of Cultivating Place conversations all shared a strong theme of relatedness. Dr. Lauren E. Oakes examined the...
- Sep 6, 2019
SEASONAL SHIFTS: SEPTEMBER, A VIEW FROM HERE
Rosa 'April Love' looking lovely in August. August starts us out in the height of Summer, doesn't it? But by its august finale, there's...
- Aug 3, 2019
PLANTS FOR LIFE LONG LEARNING & PLACE: AUGUST, A VIEW FROM HERE
Ageratina occidentalis - Western snakeroot. In my conversation with Courtney Allen, Director of Public Programs for the Native Plant...
- Jul 6, 2019
A GARDENER WAS HERE: JULY, A VIEW FROM HERE
A Gardener Was Here: the Mediterranean and edible/medicinal garden at Melk Abbey Gardens - Wachau Valley, Austria. July of most years the...
- Jun 10, 2019
LET US NOW COMMENCE: JUNE, A VIEW FROM HERE
Class of 2019 - A garden-gathered arrangement for my daughter's graduation dinner celebration, including: Matilija poppy (Romneya...
- May 5, 2019
MIRACULOUS: MAY, A VIEW FROM HERE
Native California Bulbs of Spring, Butte County, CA I love a seasonally aligned calendar date. You may have noticed– kicking off our...
- Apr 3, 2019
SPRING GREENING: APRIL, A VIEW FROM HERE
Spring wildflower mosaic, Colusa County, CA Spring is here - with her rain, hail, frosts, sun and.......flowers! In the garden and on the...
- Mar 14, 2019
ONE WEEK TILL SPRING & #GARDENLIFE LOVE-LETTERS
The Shooting Stars are out - Spring is almost here! Oh my shooting stars...✨✨✨ One week till spring - till the light is once again on our...
- Mar 4, 2019
SIGNS OF LIFE: MARCH A VIEW FROM HERE
Late Winter - Oak Woodland. Canyon Creek, Butte County, CA Happy March my friends – in like a lion and out like a lamb – that’s what they...
- Feb 5, 2019
FROG SONGS OF FEBRUARY: A VIEW FROM HERE
Pacific Chorus Frog - Butte County, CA Winter's inner-seasons are marked in many ways. Each marker holds its own small, perfect replica...
- Dec 21, 2018
Winter Solstice 2018
May the joy, beauty, love, and peace of the garden be yours this Solstice and in the year to come Happy Winter Solstice 2018 warmly — ...
- Dec 1, 2018
A VIEW FROM HERE, DECEMBER
FIRE SKIES - #CAMPFIRE, Butte County, CA 2018. Right now the concept of lost gardens is very, very poignant – raw even – for me and my...
- Nov 6, 2018
A VIEW FROM HERE, NOVEMBER: A SEASON OF GHOSTS - OF GARDENS AND GARDENERS PAST
Pomegranate Season meets Gifts from the Garden Season. Fresh pom jelly from friend Julie Nelson. I was born in early November, very close...
- Oct 8, 2018
"MONEY, PARDON THE EXPRESSION, IS LIKE MANURE..."
"Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It's not worth a thing unless it's spread around, encouraging young things to grow."...
- Oct 1, 2018
A VIEW FROM HERE, OCTOBER: SEASONAL SEEDS AND BOTANICAL ARTISTRY
The compelling charismatic tug of the Quercus is universal I think. Who can resist picking up an acorn and just holding its form and...
- Sep 5, 2018
A VIEW FROM HERE, SEPTEMBER: CONVERSATIONAL PROXIMITY
Late summer bronzed, heart shaped leaves of native Red Bud decoratively perforated by industrious leaf cutter bees. Butte County, CA...
- Aug 2, 2018
A VIEW FROM HERE, AUGUST: IN THE WEEDS
Sacred Datura, AKA Jimsonweed or Loco weed - Datura wrightii, Butte County, CA August. It's hot. And long. And there've been terrible...
- Jul 13, 2018
A VIEW FROM HERE, JULY: SLOW SUMMER....LEAN IN
Mondardella villosa (Coyote Mint) and Checkerspot butterfly - South Warner Mountain Wilderness, CA- June, 2018. Summer is for slowing...
- Jun 5, 2018
JUNE: TENDING TOWARD THE SOLSTICE
Eriogonum 'Grande Rubescens' - a native buckwheat to take your breath away. In my home garden late May. As we tend toward the Summer...
- May 1, 2018
MAY: ENERGETIC BOUNDARIES
A healthy colony of California native Fairy lanterns delineates the back garden from the natural slope of John's Canyon Creek homestead....
- Apr 4, 2018
APRIL: R is for Ribes & Garden Literacy
Spring in all its color and exuberance and vagaries - I associate it with (the garden of course) children's books - specifically, I...
- Mar 20, 2018
HAPPY VERNAL EQUINOX
Happy Equinox! Here in my place, the Sierra fawn lilies (Erythronium multiscapideum) are making their annual spring show. John and I...
- Mar 1, 2018
MARCH - A VIEW FROM HERE
In the garden and in the fields, meadows and verges, it's the native plants that are waking - luxuriously - this month here, where I...
- Feb 1, 2018
FEBRUARY - A VIEW FROM HERE
I woke up this morning, February 1st, and thought: today Cultivating Place turns two. Two years ago this month, we (the CP team and North...
- Dec 31, 2017
JANUARY - A VIEW FROM HERE
This was my fourth December (Winter Solstice and New Year's Eve) living in my current home and garden. It's a small and tidy little...
- Dec 2, 2017
DECEMBER - A VIEW FROM HERE
Of Light, Gnomes and Gnomon I live just a smidge beneath the 40th parallel. At this point in the seasonal year, there's a very...
- Nov 2, 2017
NOVEMBER - A VIEW FROM HERE
What is beautiful to you? Has it always been so? I took the photo above of these two shapely so-called urchin galls on November 4, 2016. ...
- Oct 3, 2017
OCTOBER - A VIEW FROM HERE
The weather finally turned here, a bit after the date on the calendar marking autumn's arrival, but it did. And the turn, gentle and...
- Sep 5, 2017
SEPTEMBER - A VIEW FROM HERE
A VIEW FROM HERE: I went away for a few days in late August to take my eldest daughter to her first year of college, an exciting and...