Thoughts From The Orchard—Essays

Swinging The Bat

Near Encounters With A Southern Sage

Chasing Billy Coleman

The Shot

The Slave Gardener Who Turned The Pecan Into A Cash Crop

Holding The World Together

An Association With Birds

The Shop

Learning to Play Guitar

The Pet Monkey

Prairie Wolf

A Summer Without Baseball?

Backroads

The Water Dowser

Obituary For A Tree

The Cool Of The Day

A Place I’d Rather You Forget

House For Sale

An Unexpected Exploration of Home

Grady Bottoms

Ask Dale Murphy

Summer’s Reward

Mother Nature’s Son

Adventures In Tractor-Sitting

Summer Jobs

Burning Limbs

Valentundria

The Sounds of Winter

Fifty

Elvira

The Last PB & J

Putting Up Corn

Why I Walk

Legacy of The Hell-Ape

Venomosin

Watches and Time

The Window Seat

Unencumbered

Riding With Wendell

The Barbeque

The Cabin Road

Crows

The Gnat Line

Hauling Wagons

Pocket Knives

Catch The Wind

The County Meeting

Filling The Gaps

Trilliums

The Call Back

Taking Out The Dogs at Bedtime

Wandering in Church

The Barn Fox

Goldenrod Season

The Four-Foot Shelf

One November Morning

Christmas Past and Present

Ichauway

Spring

Sourweed

Fishing The Bridge

The Friday Biscuit

Visions of Heaven

Nooks

Treasures

Finding The Seam

Seeing The Country, Whole

Cuckoos

Shoeboxes In The Closet

A Lesson in Humility

Hair of The Dog

False Spring

A Question of Limits

Eisenhower’s Turkeys

On The Meaning of Nature’s Patterns and Orchard Design

The Full Life of Empty Rural Spain

Why I Am Not Going To Mow My Orchards Until June

The Best Night of My Life

Leaf Samples

The Catastrophe

Night Sounds

A Man’s Leisure Time

In The Shadow of the Rocket

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