Drought. Even the word has a dry, raspy ring to it. Anderson Valley typically enjoys copious winter rain, but drought — for those who have…
Posts published by “Marshall Newman”
Last autumn, I received permission to harvest apples from our neighbor’s tree. I had no idea what variety they were; they looked a bit like…
Country living requires many things, but one essential is a dog. With plenty of room to roam and the isolation of Anderson Valley during my…
In my articles chronicling Anderson Valley from the late 1950s through the late 1980s, I have detailed a variety of native flora and fauna; from…
In my years in Anderson Valley, from the late 1950s to the late 1980s, I experienced plenty of local wildlife: a sea of baby toads…
In my previous article on the three major, unpredictable forces of nature — wildfire, wind and earthquake — in Anderson Valley, I focused on wildfire…
As regular readers of my occasional articles have probably realized by now, I find nature — in all its forms — fascinating. Maybe we lived…
In recent weeks, my thoughts have turned to neighbors. During our years in Anderson Valley, from the late 1950s to the late 1980s, the Newman…
Memory is a curious thing. For me, pure memory (one without emotion) is like a photograph or moving picture, with a main element in crisp…