by Carolyn M. Crane | Jun 8, 2012 | Abbey Country, Back Yard Days, photographs, Sustainability |
Hummer has been slang for hummingbird since 1868, when Titus Fey Cronise used the term in The Natural Wealth of California. For birders, the term refers to one of dozens of species of hummingbirds rather than obscenely big cars or bedroom frolics. Having spent some...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Apr 24, 2012 | Community, poetry
This poem was published in the Sonoma Mandala in 1987. trembling I would watch Sister Mercy’s weathered hands work the soil in the convent garden I would hide half behind the bird bath till the stark white of my anklet among green weeds would confess my presence...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Apr 13, 2012 | Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Alden Olmsted’s film screens before a sell-out crowd Sunday, April 15 at the Sonoma International Film Festival.
by Carolyn M. Crane | Apr 10, 2012 | Community, photographs |
A couple years ago I wrote my first piece about my neighbor, the quilter and artist Mary Moore. Even today a few people a week visit the blog and read about that special day I spent with Mary. This year the North San Juan Fire Department asked me to compose an update...
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 | Feb 24, 2012 | Community, Essays |
I’ve been remembering the Coyote Women lately. Raven Joy, Susan Lamela, Robyn Martin, Penny St. Claire and other womyn from the Ridge created the ad-hoc troupe of performers in the 1990s. I was honored to be included, and the lessons of autonomy and honesty I...
