Fred First
FRED FIRST: Passages – Remembering How I Got to NOW
In the very wee hours, I gently opened the sliding doors onto the porch, coffee in hand, to watch the fireflies rise from the mist, a thin veil of...
FRED FIRST: A Multidimensional Quantum Orchestra Between Our Ears?
TL; DR :: Offering just below the drive-through window for those who have to keep moving...
FRED FIRST: Forgetting to Create – The Broken Mirrors of Memory
In my stack of read articles for this week, the most highlights (22 of them)--were...
Extra, Extra! Christmas Stolen – Grinch Exonerated!
by Fred First
Granted, his methods were nefarious the year he stole Christmas. But his...
Black History, Southern Soils and A Franklin County Slave
by Fred First
A few weeks back, while driving from Floyd to a Moneta destination just...
Honeybees Buzzing Back in 2011
by Fred First
What with the extremes of temperature and rainfall, and cursed by more than the usual cadre of pests in the vegetable...
Popular Photography: The Immortal Light of Our Age
by Fred First
It is late October. The seasonal cycle governs our lives, indoors and out, as summer and autumn morph into one more...
Time and Space, and How to See a Tree
by Fred First
Browsing the web one recent morning, a “space exploration” site displays two images side by side on my monitor. On the...
Dry and Warm: No Easy Matter for Plucked Chickens
by Fred First
Assured in advance by the region’s soggy-foggy reputation that I would face constant drizzling rain there, I bought the first modern...
Living Within Our Means, Means Knowing Our Limits
by Fred First
I recently read these headlines, and was oddly encouraged: “Europe has already run out of fish for the year.” I’ll share with...
Dragonfly Pest Control: A Free Global Service
by Fred First
Even after being a biology watcher for decades, I learned something very interesting a few years ago when I chanced upon...
