Garlic Planting, Pannage, and the Killing Frost
Preparing for death's caress / The negligible nutritional value of Asian lady beetles
The low angled sun of middle-late October reaches through the weathered and shrugging branches of the stubborn Osage orange, battered and gold-flecked at the tips and terminal ends, but somehow still enduring between now and when a good freeze finally creeps in. The Osage orange, or as I knew it as a child, the monkey brain tree, produces baseball to so…