by Carolyn M. Crane | Apr 13, 2012 | Back Yard Days, photographs |
It must be April in the mountains. “It’s not spring until it snows on the dogwood blossoms,” the old timers up here say. It’s a good day to make chicken soup and snickerdoodles, leaf through seed catalogs and neglected ideas.
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 | 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 | Mar 9, 2012 | Essays |
I wrote the first version of this essay about ten years ago, and revised it recently. This harkens back to my college days at San Francisco State. Photos by Peggy Sue Ameson, 1984. Whenever St. Patty’s Day rolls around, I think of my old boyfriend Patrick Quinn....
by Carolyn M. Crane | Feb 26, 2012 | Humor |
“Sunday morning You’re doing your thing And I am doing mine Speaking words More a formality Cuz we can feel we Are of one mind Sunday morning” –Ani DiFranco I got up a little before the man today, ground up the last of the coffee that was out...
