Divinebunbun's Rugged Rural Missouri

Divinebunbun lives in a log cabin on 100 acres in the rocky Ozark foothills. Her porch is a box seat on nature and the seasons. This is her journal of chores and mysteries, natural history photos, and observations.

Saturday, June 5, 2021

My Pandemic (and How Was Yours?)

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Here I am at last with a real live bunny, 2021. Fourteen months in solitary confinement on the Divine Property. If anyone thought to ask me ...

Friday, May 7, 2021

I Do Wrong, and Then I Do Right

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A plump bumblebee buzzes bounces all day in front of my door every spring and summer, upward and down, and then moving laterally, persistent...

Monday, May 3, 2021

A Mint

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Wild mint is fun to find and harvest. There's a type that's poisonous, with white flowers on tall stems, but roll a stem between you...

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Dogwood Winter

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A "Dogwood Winter" is a cold snap after the dogwoods have bloomed, usually mid- to-late April. Surprise, it snowed here on April 2...

Saturday, April 17, 2021

Jack's Pulpit

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Yesterday I led a quick guest tour of the property, including Waterfall #1, Waterfall #5, and "the beach." Sloshing our way up a r...

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Father Dunne's Camp: Memories from One Who Was There, 1960-64

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Meet Mr. Richard DeVoto, well-named assistant to Monsignor Harry L. Byrne who directed Father Dunne's Catholic home for orphan bo...

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Bluebells by the Acre

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Did you want to see bluebells growing in their native sort-of-swampy habitat, during the peak of blooming? Me too. Today I took happy advant...

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Divinebunbun: A professional writer and editor, I love rural living, fresh vegetables, stargazing, May and June, cooking and hosting, and birdwatching.

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