Please join the Permaculture Group on Thursday January 9, 2025 (snow date the following Thursday) at 5:30 pm at Ann Watson’s—167 White Oak Ln. Independence. Phone or text 276-768-8171 (or email) for directions if needed and to give me a head count. This is a potluck, Ann will provide soup options for main dish and beverages if you’ll bring salads, breads, desserts. Looking forward to seeing you then.
The book is Night Magic by Leigh Ann Henion. Here’s a brief description from Amazon.
From a New York Times bestselling nature writer comes a celebration of what goes on outside in the dark, from blooming moon gardens to nocturnal salamanders, from glowing foxfire and synchronous fireflies that blink in unison like an orchestra of light.
In this glorious celebration of the night, New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann Henion invites us to leave our well-lit homes, step outside, and embrace the dark as a profoundly beautiful part of the world we inhabit. Because no matter where we live, we are surrounded by animals that rise with the moon, and blooms that reveal themselves as light fades. Henion explores her home region of Appalachia, where she attends a synchronous firefly event in Tennessee, a bat outing in Alabama, and a moth festival in Ohio. In North Carolina, she finds forests alight with bioluminescent mushrooms, neighborhood trees full of screech owls, and valleys teeming with migratory salamanders. Along the way, Henion encounters naturalists, biologists, primitive-skills experts, and others who’ve dedicated their lives to cultivating relationships with darkness.