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On trees and climate

misty forest
trees

Many Trees Make a Forest

While this pandemic has been ramping up, I have not lost my focus on the issue of funding forests. In fact, for the last several … Read More ›

Posted on December 12, 2020May 28, 2023
Washington State Capitol Building, Olympia, WA
trees, useful

This Is What Democracy Looks Like

Ever since the clearcut nextdoor, I have started “participating”. I have started showing up at local community meetings. I have gathered signatures for a petition … Read More ›

Posted on February 7, 2020February 26, 2020
Airliner above snowcapped mountains
travel, trees, useful

Trees & Travel Collide in the Evergreen State

In the mid 1980s, I owned a travel agency which specialized in cheap airline tickets to Asia. I still have my ledger of every ticket … Read More ›

Posted on January 24, 2020February 6, 2020
close-up of pine in Kew Gardens
trees, useful

Funding Our Forests, Part Two

We’ve all heard the terms carbon credits, carbon offsets and “cap and trade”. We know this has something to do with the environment and global … Read More ›

Posted on January 17, 2020May 28, 2023
Forest, lake, mountain
trees, useful

Funding Our Forests, Part One

Climate change has made urgent the need to preserve the trees and forests we already have, as well as increase tree coverage by planting new … Read More ›

Posted on December 26, 2019May 28, 2023
View of sky through pines
trees

What Is the Value of a Tree?

Before I bought my land, I lived in an apartment in Seattle that spilled down the side of Beacon Hill in a grove of huge … Read More ›

Posted on December 7, 2019December 8, 2019
A clearcut swath of forest
trees, useful

How to Fix Our Mess

As you can see in this video, I am not the only person who thinks the key to leaving the world a better place is … Read More ›

Posted on October 6, 2019October 25, 2019
Sunset over the clearcut, looking towards the Olympic mountains
philosophy, trees

Sunset Over the Apocalypse

The logging machines are gone. The searing & crashing have stopped. The beeping and loading have stopped. They have hauled away everything they legally could, … Read More ›

Posted on June 10, 2019October 6, 2019
Douglas fir stump bleeding sap
trees

My Nightmare

If you love the forest, as I do, if you own a piece of forested property, perhaps you have had this nightmare: someone is cutting … Read More ›

Posted on May 27, 2019November 4, 2019
philosophy, trees

Getting Past the Bend

There’s a place I like to walk with my doggie Kebab, on timberland which has been given to the county as a series of connected … Read More ›

Posted on September 15, 2017February 26, 2020
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A cup of tea at an unusual hour

  • Tea tasting after a long drive in tea area of Chiang Rai, Thailand
    Tea tasting after a long drive in tea area of Chiang Rai, Thailand
  • Tea on the Grand Union Canal, Britain, 1944
    Tea on the Grand Union Canal, Britain, 1944
  • Tea pouring from a tetsubin
    Tea break
  • Tea in Istanbul
    Tea in Istanbul
  • A "cappucino" made with green tea in Nong Khai, Thailand
    A matchappino in Nong Khai, Thailand
  • Morning tea on the dock at Lake Crescent
    Early morning tea at Lake Crescent, Washington, USA
  • Persian tea with rock sugar swirlers
    Persian tea with rock sugar swirlers
  • Drinking tea in Aleppo, Syria; image by James Gordon
    Drinking tea in Aleppo, Syria; by James Gordon
  • Sipping a cuppa in Ethiopia; by Ron Waddington
    Sipping a cuppa in Ethiopia; by Ron Waddington
  • Tea, phone, camera; by curiousbino
    Tea, phone, camera; by curiousbino
  • The Samovar, by William Paxton, 1926
    The Samovar, by William Paxton, 1926
  • Waiting for the eclipse
    Waiting for the eclipse
  • Tea at totality in Poulsbo, WA, USA
    Tea at totality in Poulsbo, WA, USA. It seemed much darker, but you had to be there...
  • Tea in Russia, ca 1930
    Tea in Russia, ca 1930
  • Kolkata tea break, by Rangan Datta
    Kolkata tea break, by Rangan Datta
  • Bed tea for the Queen
    Bed tea for the Queen
  • Campfire tea
    Campfire tea

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