Prickly Pear Cactus

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Prickly pear cactus, or nopal plant in garden that just took off. The nopalitos or tender paddles are nutritious and have many healthy ingredients. You need to carefully remove the spines. The tunas are tasty fruit. I burn off spines with a blowtorch.

It needs no water, weeding, or cultivation.

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Hand-Tinted Drawings from Fishes of Alaska, 1907

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These hand-tinted drawings are in an old Bureau of Fisheries (Dept of Commerce, USA) book titled Fishes of Alaska, published in 1907 that I acquired years ago.

In order: Red Rockfish, Red Salmon, (breeding male), Red Salmon (breeding female), Dolly Varden Trout. There are a total of 20 such drawings in the book.

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Photo of Zome Workshop in France by Yogan

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Photos from yogan carpenter of his friend Robin’s workshop in SW France, with a zome roof. Again, yogan has photographed a building shown in Home Work (page 49) but gotten better shots. This is really a nice idea: using a dome as roof on vertical walls. It’s in a section in the book on countercultural builders in France. (A friend of ours who lives in Amsterdam says that France is the California of Europe.)

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