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'Equal opportunity offender:' Community defends FRL amidst Jackson’s possible withdrawal
Published: 2025-05-27 19:02:58T wo weeks after the Jackson County Commission floated a possible withdrawal from the Fontana Regional Library system , residents showed up to speak at the May 20 commission meeting for more than three and a half hours of public comment, with the majorit...
Read MoreNotes from a plant nerd: Playing with a full deck
Published: 2024-08-07 16:17:24Dear reader, yeah, I mean you. You who are reading this while holding the paper in your hands or scanning through on your computer, tablet or phone. Yeah, you. I am so deeply grateful to you for reading my articles. This marks the 52nd column that I have...
Read MoreNotes from a plant nerd: Magnolia Sweet as Sugar
Published: 2024-07-17 15:48:41My dog Magnolia and I have been together for around 16 years. She’s a good dog. We used to wander all over the mountains searching for wildflowers, waterfalls and beautiful views. . These days, we mostly walk up the driveway to the mailbox and back. Sh...
Read MoreNotes from a plant nerd: Heal all of yourself
Published: 2024-07-03 15:11:35There are a few native plants whose names I call out loud like a prayer whenever I see them. This is especially true since the crazy times of the global pandemic and resulting shutdown. One of those is the whorled loosestrife (Lysimachia quadrifolia) who...
Read MoreNotes from a plant nerd: Orchidaceous!
Published: 2024-06-25 20:14:46Please don’t get me wrong, I love the orchids of springtime. Love them. They tend to be as big and showy and beautiful as springtime itself. Ladyslipper orchids, both yellow and pink (Cypripedium acaule and C. parviflorum) and showy orchis (Galearis sp...
Read MoreRespect your elders
Published: 2024-06-04 20:23:58Our culture tends to celebrate youth and youthfulness above all other life phases. Growth and vitality are venerated over age and wisdom. This wasn’t always the case. . Elders were once held up as knowledge keepers and advice givers, useful members of ...
Read MoreThe axe always forgets, the tree always remembers
Published: 2024-05-14 20:04:32If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to cut it up and use it for heat or timber, is it a waste of resources? Or, put another way, are humans the only reason that all other life on Earth was created? . My answer to both questions is no. We s...
Read MoreNotes from a plant nerd: What a Lark
Published: 2024-04-30 20:05:05I wear a few different hats in my world. A big straw hat for working in the garden or walking out in the sun. Wool caps and toboggans for the colder mornings of spring. Party hats for the celebrations. I’ve even been known to wear a tricorne hat when v...
Read MoreNotes from a plant nerd: Spring, Sprang, Sprung, Sproing! What is Springtime?
Published: 2024-04-17 15:26:44Spring has fully sprung across Southern Appalachia, as we are awakened daily to birdsong and the bustling morning activity of bees and butterflies. . Flowers are blooming in a progression like a great parade along the trail, lacking only a broadcaster’...
Read MoreNotes from a plant nerd: Hope for the Hemlocks
Published: 2024-04-03 14:57:15In springtime, all things are possible. Everything around you that is alive is imbued right now with the same hopeful energy. . Everything is new, fresh and buzzing with renewed vigor, growth and hope. Everything is filled with the potential for hope, jo...
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