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Walking on our property yesterday, everything is lost in green, but somehow, you can feel that the peak of summer has passed.
The small creek is almost dry—just enough mud that the kids like to muck about in it. It will start filling up with fall rains, soon.
We didn’t do a goat walk this time—I’m not convinced that the babies wouldn’t run away. We’ll wait a bit longer before taking them all out.
Look at how tiny Luc looks next to this huge poplar!
The first red leaves of fall are starting to appear. These are sassafras, so pretty.
The times, they are a changing….
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today's yoga practice
- monday
June 19, 2013 | 10:41 amFull Primary. Actually, that’s a lie. I left off those butt balance poses at the end of seated. I kind of hate those. They bore me. [hangs head] I’m weak.
- sunday
June 16, 2013 | 10:10 amPrimary to supta konasana. Long stay in baddha and uphavista, then ollapse. i feel so winded today!
- friday
June 16, 2013 | 10:09 amFull Primary.
- thursday
June 16, 2013 | 10:08 amyin yoga again. lazy yoga.
- wednesday
June 13, 2013 | 2:19 pmPrimary to Janu B and then I ran out of time. Better than nothing, I guess.
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- MAYA LASSITER is a writer of fantasy novels, an unschooling mom, a yogini, a goat keeper, a yurt dweller, and an all-around cool person. Except when she's a boring ninny. Hopefully she won't post on those days.
Here’s a little something about sassafras that you may not know, Maya. They produce leaves of three different shapes — the three-lobed type you show here, a two-lobed variety that often looks like a mitten, and a non-lobed, entire shape. And here’s the way to remember them. Three-lobers are Daddyfras, two-lobers are Mamafras, and no-lobers are Little Baby Sassafras. Putting it altogether, Daddyfras, Mamafras, and Little Baby Sassafras.
Wait, wait, wait–I live in Vermont, and we barely get a summer here at all. This year we had an extra seasons (the rainy one) that lasted until mid-July, so we’ve only actually had a few weeks of real summer so far, and I’m NOT interested in seeing any leaves changing yet.
Purty, though …
It’s happening. Ain’t no stopping it. Sorry.
Hey, I did not know that. We knew about the three kinds of leaves because, look, there they are on the tree, but I hadn’t heard the little family part of it. The kids liked that. They say Hi! by the way…