“We are changed by beauty, too. Never did I know what beauty could mean to me until I stood one day in a field of blowing thistledown . . . They rested on my eyelids, they caught in my hair, they glistened silverly on the gray wool of my sweater. I did not touch one of them myself, and yet I have kept them all. If I could have prayed then, I should have besought Apollo to make me like the seed of the thistle. ” // from The Dingbat of Arcady by Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson, 1922

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• A Note from the Editors
• Anthony Etherin: Wildflower
• Sally Nacker: Kindness in Winter
• Blake Everitt: View from Monks Bay, Bonchurch
• Sean Ferrier-Watson: Caprock Canyon
• TR Poulson: Dairy Farmer's Daughter Considers Climate Change, and God, in the Cretaceous
• Erica Fletcher: There Are So Many Things
• Robert Watson: The Museum of Farming Life
• Ann Chandonnet: Borning Room
• Jefferson Navicky: Salamanders, and Rat Kings
• Connie Schultz: before the wildfires, and grand coulee in wildfire smoke
• David Milley: Deer Season

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The front cover art is adapted from illustrations of root-systems of desert plants by biologist John Ernest Weaver, as appear in his 1919 book The Ecological Relations of Roots. Annie Mogensen and F. C. Jean are also credited with work on the images. In the public domain.

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