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  We’ve had almost two weeks of stable sunny weather, the kind of high-pressure clarity that makes every morning feel […]

This morning I found a blue longicorn beetle (Rosalia batesi) on the cabin’s wooden deck railing, motionless in a patch

Counting spirals is a kind of meditation. The cones don’t care if I get it wrong. I trace one ridge

Today the lake was crowded with more sailboats than I’d ever seen here—sleek hulls catching the morning light, bright spinnakers

A thin band of fog lay flat across the river, and the kites traced circles overhead in slow, wide loops

I set off this morning down the gravel path from my cabin to the lake. The day before, I’d put

Oblong and bruised and perfect; the vendor says the rain made them sweeter. I thumb the powdery bloom and it

I split my time between Tokyo and northern Nagano, where my cabin sits at the edge of a national park.