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Larisa A. White
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M.S.Ed., Ph.D. • Indie scholar • Author • Teaching the power & joy of learning • Ecosystem restorationist (California) • Celebrating nature • Advocating stewardship • Weaving tales of cross-cultural & inter-species relations.

https://larisa-a-white.com
What's wrong with this picture?

A giant, deep-dish pizza pan serving as our new bird bath because the critters flipped and broke the old (pale yellow) pottery bird bath. Birds do not seem to recognize this as a bird-bath, and the other critters are not drinking at it, either.

Any ideas why?
November 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Another seasonal gift from my young photographer, Steven White...

Rain chains flowing. Gotta love November in the Coast Range Mountains of California!
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
First batch complete: 8 cups of joy, awaiting fresh-baked bread.
November 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
10 cups of firethorn tea, waiting to be processed into jelly, tomorrow.

I always love the rich color of this jelly - almost fluoresces.
November 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
My favorite part of November: pruning the neighbor's thorny pyracantha bushes & harvesting the berries for firethorn jelly!
November 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
When tired and stressed with grown-up worries, picking up an old hardcover edition of "The World of Christopher Robin,” and reading a few poems is like medicine; it makes everything seem alright again.
October 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
An Autumn Break gift from my boy, taken while visiting Grandma's house at Lake Tahoe...

Back to school on Monday, so we'll have to hold this beauty in memory.

Teen #nature #photography
October 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Sunset at the Autumn Equinox, in Half Moon Bay, California.
September 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
The Fire Season heat is on! Time for an...

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September 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
#Crocheted, native California wildflowers. Elegant Clarkia (Clarkia unguiculata) v.1

Comments/critiques?

🧶 #nativeplants
August 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Another stunning photo (iPhone SE; no edits; no AI) by my 14 y.o. son, Steven.

#nature #photography
August 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
#Crocheted, native California wildflowers. Blue Flax (Linum lewisii) v.1

Comments/critiques?

🧶 #nativeplants
August 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
#Crocheted, native California wildflowers. Tidy Tips, FINAL:

Moving on to Blue Flax flowers...
August 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Better than therapy for what ails you:

1. Calming ambient music by Ron Alan Cohen

2. Quiet work on nature-reverent art (crocheting native wildflowers here)

3. A reminder to "Be a goldfish," and forget any worries outside your immediate locus of control.

Wishing all a blessed day.

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August 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Non-fiction/academic - the full range of diverse religious beliefs, ritual practices & nature-connection/stewardship activities of real, live, modern Druids.

Great for Druids, for those curious about nature spirituality & for authors portraying Druid characters.

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August 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Okay... here's the pattern for this rendition. The final version of the pattern will only be for color adjustments.
July 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
More experiments in lace #crochet pattern-making for native California #wildflowers.

Tidy Tips (Layia platyglossa), version 2.

Comments & critiques welcome.

If 10+ people "Like" it, I'll post the revised pattern.

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July 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Okay, that's 10+ people, so here's the first draft of my pattern for Tidy Tips...

Comments and suggestions welcome.
July 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Just finished my 1st experiment in lace #crochet pattern making for native California #wildflowers rendered in cotton crochet thread. This attempt is for Tidy Tips (Layia platyglossa). If 10+ people "Like" it or post constructive critiques, I'll post the pattern.

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July 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Always a delight, returning home from SF on a summer afternoon, to to see Kermit the Fog cascading over the Coast Range Mountains from Half Moon Bay and tumbling into Crystal Springs Reservoir.
July 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Just ordered a full, print edition of the World Book Encyclopedia of 2023 (before LLMs can have corrupted the editing), as a hedge against society's rapidly accelerating slide into an AI-hallucinated "knowledge" ecosystem in which vetted information is growing more difficult to find.

I❤️BOOKS!
June 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Just FYI: It was a fabulous little gathering, which we held in a spot that the spirits of place had clearly indicated were suitable for a Midsummer Druid ritual...
June 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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What does it really mean to be a modern Druid?
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Tell a friend.
June 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Great sadness. Marking the sudden decline & impending passing of a beloved friend — the second-oldest tree in Queens County, NYC: a great, swamp maple that has lived on my parent's property since before the house was built in 1904.

Fungus hollowed her; many homes were lost today.

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June 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM