The icy Viridissima meadow sparkiling Last month the blog featured the Japanese calendar of microseasons. I found this consideration of the land week by week very inspiring and grounding. I thought it would be delightful to start each blog post with a list of the month’s microseasons, which read like a poem when listed altogether. Here’s what’s happening in January and into the first week of February: Wheat sprouts under snow. Parsley flourishes. Springs thaw. Pheasants start