June 2010 Blog Posts (8)

パタゴニアは本格的に冬の到来です。雪が山を降りてきて、水溜りに氷が張り、大きな霜柱が立つようになりました。

霜柱を踏みながら歩くのは、本当に久しぶり！楽しくてわくわくする。。。のですが、アースバックホームは壁の材料になっている土が凍ってしまわないようにしなければなりません！

Winter has come to Patagonia. Snow is getting closer, ice in the pond, and big frost on the ground. It is fun walking on the frost, but it is not good for the earthbag walls because they might…

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Gualdo (Lucio's brother) leads the way to Lucio"s farm where we will spend the night

LUCIO'S OLD HOUSE

Lucio's House

The trip to the valley was a thank you to Mayumi who came all the way from Japan and…

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WALKINGTHE LAND WITH FORMER OWNER AND NEIGHBOUR VICTOR HUGO AND HIS WIFE

Some of our… Continue

This horse just came wandering over

Our second piece of land is fifteen kilometers or an hours a drive, two river crossings, one by boat, the other on a 28 meter log, and an hour and a halfs hike.

We share the entire magnificent valley with just a few families, four glaciers, two crystal clear rivers, countless streams, sheep, goats, horses, cows, forests and…

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When the clouds clear melimoyo appears and allways the picture looks different. Now we have a roof and walls and temporary doors and windows we're sleeping a few nights week on the land - and enjoying every minute. Konomi is plastering, I'm wood working, and…

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At least once a week I walk over to the magical little spot we've discovered growing on our land and always I am amazed at the Earth's intricate life and beauty.

The micro world always reminds me of the macro and from little plants like this I can easily visualise a planet with the most awesome defence

Same species different time of life.

It's easy tp see why these things stick to your clothes and they must be extremely dangerous for an insect to land on.

Pictures taken…

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Melimoyo Volcano and the Palena River lit by an autumn full moon on a bitterly cold night. As seen from our land. This photo took around 30 seconds to expose and the white spots are stars moving through the night sky.