Cone-Cone-Chweee!
The song of Red-Winged Blackbirds trills the morning air as we walk along the shores of the marsh. Suddenly, a flock of thousands explodes off the water, honking and darkening the sky. The geese are heading north again!
We had ventured to Eugene ostensibly to harvest cattails, though we spent a great deal of time […]
Let there be Light, Air… and Dried Nettles?
There’s a quiet little hum in the other room right now, a satisfying hum. The hum of twenty pounds of stinging nettles lying in a box, rapidly drying.
But wait. Nettles don’t hum, nor do boxes. What kind of etymological mischief is this?
Well, my friends, I am introducing to you the new food dehydrator, made […]
Freezing Rivers of Molten Rock
In our continuing series of adventures-until-we-drop-dead, the Ancestral Lifeways group arrived at the old volcano in Central Oregon, Glass Buttes, to collect obsidian and dacite stone for making stone tools (also known as flintknapping).
Here elder Goode Jones works on one of the enormous boulders we dug out of the earth, spalling out large flat […]