Whats With That Juniper Tree?
I bend my knees and set my feet solidly, fit my hands around the rock, and lift. Im picking up the ancient earth piece by piece, carrying rocks to pile around trees I have planted in a steep prairie hillside. This is not good terrain for growing trees, this rocky northern slope covered with tangled prairie grasses . . . –from Land Circle: Writings Collected on the Land Part I, Rock Lover (pages 90-91) published by Fulcrum Publishing, 1991, Anniversary Edition 2008 Linda writes: My first book, published in 1987, was titled Windbreak. After my husband died in 1988, Id written a poem to him titled “Windbreak Now” which was first published in LIFE Magazine. When it came time to have an author photo taken for Land Circle in 1990, it seemed appropriate to me that since Id written about windbreaks and drought, my author picture should reflect that, and show me doing some of the work I do besides writing. The author photo that appeared on the dust-jacket of the cloth edition of Land Circle is
