Seasons
Calendars, daylight, markets and the year turning, one small season at a time.
5 entries-
budding 3 min
Cooking by the market, one season at a time
One bag, one stall, every Saturday. Cooking from what is there taught me the year better than any calendar.
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seedling 3 min
Learning to sketch birds, badly
A pencil, a pocket notebook and a lot of potatoes with tails. Sketching birds taught me to see them.
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seedling 3 min
The seventy-two small seasons
My grandmother's old calendar of five-day seasons, and a local version for an English valley.
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budding Members 3 min
Living by the daylight
A year of letting the light shape the day: slow winter mornings, candles after dinner, long June evenings.
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evergreen 3 min
Keeping a nature calendar
One page for each week, and the first time I see something. Three years of saying hello to the year.