http://www.greengirl.org My small green corner of the etherscape. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:48:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mushrooms, new trails, old friends, science experiment cars that actually run, and glorious glorious new year's eves. Grateful for this town I live in! http://www.greengirl.org/2012/01/05/turning-of-the-year/ The thought of whales got me out after months off the water.  The thought of whales helped me skip past my nervous at rowing a thin shell of a float out onto that big dancing blue body of the Pacific with whales in her belly. The thought of whales drew ... http://www.greengirl.org/2011/10/27/chasing-humpbacks/ What is a dive? Its bare feet on warm rock. Then air. Then convergence of cool lake water on skin. Then fish and swirly breath caught swoosh. Then burst up into alpine air and WHOOP! Then swim scurry back to the benched granite with a big grin to do it ... http://www.greengirl.org/2011/09/26/dive/ blue skies! (and finally, with only 10 days to go until the Solstice) inspiring me to repost this one: lets get outside! Tent tethered among jackpine and blue- bells. Lacewings rise from rock incubators. Wild geese flying north. And I can’t remember who I am supposed to be. I want to learn how to purr. Abandon myself, ... http://www.greengirl.org/2011/06/09/summers-here/ Again did the earth shift Again did the nights grow short, And the days long And the people of the earth were glad and celebrated each in their own ways. - Diane Lee Moomey http://www.greengirl.org/2011/06/09/again-solstice/ So my last post was feeling outdated, posted as it was early in the spring with snow all over the summit.  Well, its June 1 and things h'ain't changed much. Just got back from Strawberry and we got snowed on there.  Tioga pass is still under 10 feet of snow ... http://www.greengirl.org/2011/06/02/from-snow-tosnow/ Yes it snowed on the ridges last weekend, and I went out in it. Donna and I. Talking and not talking. Left the van parked half way along the last downslope on Empire Grade behind a downed Madrone. Its supposed to snow tonight all the way down here, with us, at the ... http://www.greengirl.org/2011/02/26/ocean-snow/ #44 Cook and eat wild mushrooms that I harvestedIn reality I have done this already, with some lovely bluetts found by Donna Thomas and I on our around town walks.  I didn't cross it off then, for I wanted to harvest some on my own, which I met yet do ... http://www.greengirl.org/2011/01/10/44-on-the-bucket-list-check/ A Brief Notice for Wireless Operators The sponsors of this event authorize the following Official Notice to be broadcast on the wireless: On Saturday, December 11, a local tech collective,  UBEW, will be hosting an unusual evening of food, auction, and performance.  This historic costume benefit will feature an elegant ... http://www.greengirl.org/2010/12/16/an-evening-of-extraordinary-proportions/ Breakage I go down to the edge of the sea. How everything shines in the morning light! The cusp of the whelk, the broken cupboard of the clam, the opened, blue mussels, moon snails, pale pink and barnacle scarred— and nothing at all whole or shut, but tattered, split, dropped by the gulls onto the gray rocks and ... http://www.greengirl.org/2010/12/06/windows/