Pruning and Other Forms of Tree Sorcery
The ordinary magic of manipulating time and space in the orchard
I’ve been looking up lately. Between my renewed interest in birdwatching and the necessities of orchard pruning season, the tendons and muscles in my neck, not to mention my shoulders and wrists, have been used in some unfamiliar ways this past week. In these late hours of pre-emergent dormancy, my creaking body, stiff with the corrosion of wintertime s…