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Sharing What The Land Teaches – ConTEXTing Haiku

ByDavid Kuhns August 29, 2019August 29, 2019

Trees, wildflowers, birds,/

bugs, fields. The land teaches me /

much. I want to share.

Nature Observation | Nature's Garden: Gardening and Land Management

Reconnecting With My 27 Backyard Tree Species: Haiku
ByDavid Kuhns July 3, 2019August 20, 2019

Hi, my deep-rooted/ woods friends. I’m sad I’ve not been/ near. I’ll tread barefoot.

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When You Think You’re On Nature’s Treasure Heap, And Then Aren’t Certain Anymore
ByDavid Kuhns May 10, 2018May 11, 2018

You might think you’re on Nature’s treasure heap. You might be weeping for the beauty of it all. You might want to share it with the entire world. Certainly, you want to share it with family and friends, the people who matter the most to you. Why? Because you think, hope, wish and pray they’ll…

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Earth Day At 50 With Me: Haiku – Haibun Memory
ByDavid Kuhns April 22, 2020April 22, 2020

Earth Day’s 50! Then:/ I’m in Milwaukee’s River./ Now: I’ll plant Earth’s fields. Earth Day is 50! A half century ago I stood in the Milwaukee River in Estabrook Park near my home in Glendale, Wisconsin, loudly singing with other youth and cleaning out the old tires, mattress springs, tin cans and other junk that…

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Georgia Summer Hot Green – ImproVerse Haibun
ByDavid Kuhns August 18, 2019August 19, 2019

The Northwest Georgia summer is hot. That doesn’t surprise me. I expected the weight of heat like an oven. What shocks my mind, not my system, is that August on the banks of the West Chickamauga is not as uncomfortable as I remember Wisconsin being. Mid-August growing up in Milwaukee when it was 99 +…

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Nature's Garden: Gardening and Land Management

If You Look For Mushrooms, Will They Appear?
ByDavid Kuhns May 9, 2018May 9, 2018

It’s a dream to find edible wild food, but you have to really look for mushrooms. Gene and Jan are interested in putting up tree houses on their acreage on Vashon Island, WA, and running a bed and breakfast. They also enjoy foraging for wild food (and creating their own, where possible). Dreaming of oyster…

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Finding Wonderful Hidden Wildflowers: Haiku
ByDavid Kuhns August 22, 2019August 24, 2019

It is often so/ that when we clear dross and junk,/ we find wonderful. Using a loping shears to clear underbrush and non-native privet from around the hardwood trees in my back yard reveals an undergrowth of black-eyed susans and other hidden wildflowers. Sometimes you have to burn the grasses and weeds from large fields,…

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