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Live Oak.   

"Oaks amend the soil overtime, with their own leaves and build natural mycorrhizal fungus they need to survive.  Gradually they become islands of natural fertility that improves the health of nearby plants."

Calscalpe…California Native Plant Society

deciduous,   or ever green in warmer climates.  I watch.  some leaves fall,  some will remain.  I keep calling this upcoming season Winter.  Because of where i'm "from".  Winter doesn't really apply here.   What did the native,  the first peoples, call the months that are coming?  Rain Months?  

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  1. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    such a beautiful tree

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  2. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    Yes, I would think the year was divided into the Dry Times and when it Rained
    Now there is also the Time of Fire but that might be the same as well.

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  3. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    There is a good book called Tending the Wild by M. Kat Anderson. Native American knowledge and the management of California’s natural resources. I have been trying to read it for the past few months but have also about 6 other books going at the same time. Also the copy I bought is missing several pages. I did not find the word or concept you are asking about but I did find this description that sounds like a spirit cloth I have “seen”, ” Native people drew spiral pictographs – sets of concentric connected rings radiating out from a center- on cave walls and rock shelters in locations where they are illuminated by the rising sun on the winter solstice.” They marked when birds had their nests, when the animals had their young, when the plants grew and when the seeds were ripe. They did this year after year to study the signs of the sun. I love that image! I bet they drew rainy times somehow, too. I also love the leaves on your tree – so lovingly done. How are your Turkey Tail mushrooms?

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  4. Michelle Slater Avatar
    Michelle Slater

    Sure hope you read your comments and your Email Grace. I sent a package with cloth and a few photos…DUE TO ARRIVE AFTER WEDNESDAY TODAY! HOPE YOU CAN PICK IT UP BEFORE THEY MAIL IT BACK TO ME.

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  5. jude Avatar
    jude

    tomorrow?

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  6. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    Our live oaks in the Texas Hill Country let go of some leaves when the dry times come in summer … when it’s really bad, whole limbs get shut down so a tree can save itself. But mostly, the leaves stay put until February or March, when new leaves push the old leaves off. The trees never go completely bare … the only evidence of the transition being the drift of leaves on the ground.
    And oh how they shine … leaves catching sunlight like a million sequins, shifting and shimmering in the wind

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i did….i responded to your comment a day or so ago…here on the blog
    put the correct phone number…you may be trying the
    old land line in N. Mex?…disconnected…..?
    i’ll email you in a minute. There no longer seems
    to be any problem with mail…that return was way
    in the beginning when i first got here. It’s been
    months now and all has been well. I’ll go to P.O. today
    or tomorrow probably.
    Not to worrry

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  8. Michelle Slater Avatar
    Michelle Slater

    Great–must have missed reply but got your email and answered it. Also corrected phone number. All’s well.

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  9. beth Avatar
    beth

    Saw a horrible film last night. Burned. https://burnedthemovie.com/
    Apparently the forests of the southern east coast area are being clear cut, turned into wood pellets, shipped to the EU to be burned as fuel. They’ve somehow managed to call the horrible carbon foot print of this practice to be zero. Burning biomass which includes treated railroad ties and tires. I was stunned to learn about yet another case where we seem to be accelerating our way into irrevocable climate change, into extinction.

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  10. Michelle Slater Avatar
    Michelle Slater

    Exquisite stitching.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    am loving stitching this Tree

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    am reading about this now in the new book…how
    fire has always been a part of this Place

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    the mushrooms…not yet. Just that brief few days, and
    SUN again. But soon. Am excited, watching for them.
    and the book, well, the BOOK……

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    smile,

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    these are the same…and
    sequins
    what a perfect description!

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. and yes, that word extinction.
    but we are choosing it.

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