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Recent Posts
- Marching for My Children, Marching for Our Future
- Hive Collapse: A Gardener’s Story
- Bully Boy, Rufous, and Me
- Living With a Diabetic Cat
- Honoring Childhood Heroes
- Snake Signs
- In Search of the Pacific Crest Trail
- Up the Angeles Crest, After the Fire
- A Tribute to Spot the Ground Squirrel
- Celebrate Earth Day
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Author Archives: Smoky Zeidel
Marching for My Children, Marching for Our Future
Today we trek back up the mountain, along the Angeles Crest Highway. The road is now open from La Canada Flintridge all the way to Wrightwood, beyond the alpine meadow with the tiny lupine cap, beyond the “Bighorn Sheep Area” … Continue reading
Hive Collapse: A Gardener’s Story
This morning as I was enjoying my morning coffee out on my back deck, I noticed a honeybee contentedly buzzing from flower to flower on one of our blooming succulent plants. My first impulse was to shout out loud, jump … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, blogging, environment, environmental writing, farms, nature, Uncategorized, vegetarianism
Tagged backyard farming, Bees, environment, farming, gardening, hive collapse
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Bully Boy, Rufous, and Me
As those of you who have followed me over the years know well, and those of you who are new to this blog will soon learn, I’m a nature nut. There is a reason I’m known as the Earth Mage. … Continue reading
Living With a Diabetic Cat
Those of you who are following me on Facebook are aware that, a couple of weeks ago, one of my cats, Beetlejuice, was diagnosed with diabetes. It’s been a challenge, to say the least, learning to care for a diabetic … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, writing, memoir, blogging, pets, cats
Tagged cats, feline diabetes
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Honoring Childhood Heroes
Who was your hero when you were a child? If you could do something to honor that childhood hero, what would you do? When I was a little girl, my family used to make an annual migration to the East … Continue reading
Snake Signs
We’ve been having a rough time here at the cottage recently. Creatively, I’ve been stymied. It isn’t that I don’t want to write, have writer’s block, or that I don’t know where I’m going with my newest Work in Progress … Continue reading
Up the Angeles Crest, After the Fire
In many indigenous cultures, owls are harbingers of death. My southern grandmother was a firm believer, and no amount of coaxing from her then maybe seven-year-old granddaughter—that would be me—could convince her otherwise. Fortunately, I’ve never bought into that piece … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, books, Earth, environmental writing, memoir, nature, nature photography, nature writing, photography, reading, Uncategorized, writers, writing
Tagged Angeles Crest Highway, Angeles National Forest, IBird Pro 2, Kindle Fire, Observations of an Earth Mage, San Gabriel Mountains, Scott Zeidel, Sitting in the Woods, Station Fire, Trails, Vanilla Heart Publishing
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A Tribute to Spot the Ground Squirrel
Spot the Ground Squirrel pops up in a lot of stuff I write. I figure with all the casual comments I throw around about Spot, the least I can do is formally introduce her … him … them, to you. … Continue reading
