A quote about the 3rd niyama, tapas

Tapas is a practice of balanced austerity, sacrifice, discipline. Tapas means “heat” or “fire.” Go through the heat and accept it – invite it in. The fire brings transformation. If you are not in stillness, you are craving or having aversion. Transformation happens through the fire – burn off some layers and emerge as something new – […]

12/2 Art: Wildlife Photography of David Yarrow

One thing makes Scottish photographer David Yarrow’s work stand out from a world of wildlife photography — a unique point of view. African elephants tower over you, lions stare balefully into your eyes, tigers look up from the water and rhinoceros charge straight at you. It can be a bit unsettling — this feeling of […]

Worry about your character and not your reputation, because your character is who you are, and your reputation is only what people think of you.

Protect your crops from next frigid snap

I hope your cold frames survived last week’s frigid blast; now it’s time to brace up for the next round, which should arrive tonight.  All my five cold frames fared well so far. Some of the more tender vegetation was a little limb one morning, but after the sun came up and warmed the chambers, […]