A few days ago our winter warmth arrived. Eight tons of beech were unloaded at the foot of the garden, having been hauled from the mountain forests behind our home. It’s now been bandsawed by the woodcutters who do the rounds of the village with a tractor-mounted blade, the rising metallic whine starting with the light each day. They worked on into the dark, sawing their [...]
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A Way Within
Posted in Birds, Habitat, Landscape, Mammals, Nature, Prespa, tagged friendship, John Muir, marsh frog, meditation, merlin, mystery, Nature, Prespa, spirituality on November 20, 2010 | 13 Comments »
By Way of a Lake
Posted in Landscape, Mammals, Prespa, Wetlands, tagged brown hare, fox, Nature, otter, Prespa, walking, wildcat on April 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Between winter and true spring are days of strange emergence. The landscape is in limbo, neither one season nor the next. Mammals explore the light, as well as the night. Only a few meagre wildflowers surface into the world, but when they do they do so with extravagance. And each year, around this time, I walk a [...]
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My essay, Faith in a Forgotten Place, has won the 2011 Terrain.org Nonfiction Award. You can read it here!
Julian Hoffman is a writer living beside the Prespa Lakes in northern Greece. Notes from Near and Far is his blog on the nature of place.
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