by Carolyn M. Crane | Dec 28, 2012 | Abbey Country, photographs
Each spring and fall, sandhill cranes migrate over our home on the west slope of the Sierra. Like so many of my friends and neighbors, I run outside to hear their calls and witness their grace. So, imagine my delight on vacation here in Abbey Country, when my...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Apr 6, 2012 | Back Yard Days, Community, Friends of Bloody Run Creek, Mining, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival |
When I covered the Wild and Scenic Film Festival last January, I wrote a piece called “Occupy Confluences”. It’s about creating new systems, the blue lines on the map, and what inspired me to be a more active steward of the two watersheds that...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Mar 22, 2012 | photographs, poetry |
Last week I walked into the dining room and saw these flowers a friend had left. Right away I remembered this poem, and a time long ago when I first discovered quince. I said, “I love you.” You said, “I brought fresh quince,” and you spliced it...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Mar 16, 2012 | Back Yard Days, photographs |
I captured these at Two Bridges along the South Fork of the Yuba River. <img
by Carolyn M. Crane | Aug 18, 2011 | Essays, Farming |
“The appropriate measure of farming then is the world’s health and our health, and this is inescapably one measure.The use of nature as measure proposes an atonement between ourselves and our world, between economy and ecology, between the domestic and the...
