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Cow Bells
Days 36–44 — Soil and Peace — Carpathian Dispatch
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More Stones
Day 44 — Soil and Peace — Carpathian Dispatch
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The Gutter Was a Hollowed Log
Verkhovyna — the landscape that is going
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Coming Back Up
Days 23–26 — July 13–16, 2026
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Behind Two Horses
Seven solar panels, and the last of the road up the mountain.
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The Pulse
Down in the town — the garden and the table, a project picked up after four months, and an interest that took a shape.
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Nine O'Clock
Heat on the mountains, the morning the whole country stops, and the table where Soil and Peace is worked out on the ground.
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The Source
A few more days in the valley — and the water at the edge of the town.
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The Bridge
A table to its place after dark, with the neighbours; the long way down to the town; a dog with blue eyes as far as the bridge; and a man brought home across the river, a stranger only to me.
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Most of It Was Wild
A foraged breakfast — the twenty in the bowl, what they are, and the record worth making with her
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The Water From Above
Day 7 — the greenhouse before the heat, the trough gone dry
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Before the Children Come
The sixth day finds the household's rhythm — the garden, the table, the rooms made ready.
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Down from the Mountain
The Black Cheremosh
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Going to Ask
Lviv, Vorokhta, Verkhovyna — the names of the road into the Hutsul heartland
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Where the Bells Come From
The valley in daylight, and the source of a sound
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Viktor
Out of Lviv before the curfew lifts
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A Self-Imposed Exile
Soil and Peace — Carpathian Dispatch 2026
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Everybody Out
Lviv — a night in the station, the mountains still a day off
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The First Water
Under full load, the first water east