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Michigan Brown Trout Festival
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The Michigan Store Embraces Conversations With Sasquatch
Michigan is home to the Big Creek Sasquatch.
The Michigan Store in Atlanta, MI is now home to Richard’s Conversations with Sasquatch Book 1.
The second book is due to come out soon so keep posted!
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May Painting for Today
My painting for today is Round Island Light. It stands sentinel in the Straights of Mackinaw where the sun daubed skies of dusk and dawn glow a golden orange.
Lilacs and Bumble Bees
Fairview, Michigan is abundant with lilacs and with them come the bumble bees. I find the hum and beauty they bring to our yard, if only temporary, a Michigan staple I look forward to every year. I do wish their divine fragrance would last the summer, but that is not the case. California has bred a long lasting variety, but those are scentless and senseless as far as comparisons go. I’ll take a week of the real thing over several months of an imposter in another State.
The bumble bees will stay. They will find other avenues to gather their nectars from our gardens and ditches. While out planting a tree, I found their nest, an abandoned gopher hole in the meadow beside our yard. I am sure they will be happy there as the year rolls along into summer and fall. For now I will enjoy their dance with the lilacs across the countrysides of Northern Michigan.
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My Painting for Today
My painting for today is the wolf. Cunning and poetic, they move through the forest of our hearts like the wind. They instill the beauty and fear of the wild. Poems for Teens:
Halloween Tricks, No Treats
Natural selection came in the night and trimmed our forests. The power went with the trees that fell and the limbs that broke from the burdens of wet snow. Not even the snowplows were ready for this one. Next springs lilacs are going to look like a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree.
Happy Halloween!
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Kenaf Seeds
I am involved in a pilot seed growing program for creating a kenaf seed bank here in Michigan. I just planted my allotment of seed furnished to me by Kenaf Partners USA (kenafpartnersusa.com).
The essential to kenaf as a rotational cash crop for Michigan farmers is a viable seed in quantities to meet future demand. I am hopeful for viable results emanating from this pilot program which is being conducted all over the USA.
My new kenaf book, “Seeding the World” https://amzn.to/2UPR4gX
is an introduction to kenaf as a rotational cash crop for American farmers and was written in conjunction with this pilot seed program.
This will be an important phase in the creation of possibilities for kenaf in Michigan and across the USA. I will try to update as the season progresses.
Help the World Be Cool
Robert Lawrason of Kenaf Partners USA (Onaway, Michigan) has partnered with QuickTurtle Books® and QuickTurtle New World Advertising (Fairview, Michigan) to create a Kenaf children’s book to help promote the environmentally friendly and economically sound Kenaf plant. Continue reading
Blue Heron Haiku
painting by Richard Rensberry Continue reading
Dance in the Dark
It is on occasion, after a day of drenching rain, they come out to play. Rain is music to their earthly souls, a primitive reminder of the percussion of sex, the need to partner-up and get down to some serious love making in the wet grass and dirt as lightning bugs and stars ramp up to flicker.
In the Amish Country, night crawlers are not neighborhood hoodlums. They don’t hang around on street-corners at two o’clock in the morning smoking pot. They aren’t out dealing Meth or accosting senior citizens for some meager amount of cash to buy a hit of crack cocaine. Continue reading
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