Lesson #4 Be Patient Should a lord of ten thousand chariots treat himself more lightly than he treats the whole world? Too light: you lose your foundation Too restless: you lose your mastery. -Tao Te Ching #26 When we wait for something we anticipate what comes next. We stand restless on the edge of the […]
Lesson #3 Be Consistent — Be Humble Do not-doing; manage affairs with effortless effort. Know by not-knowing; savor the flavor of the unadulterated. Great or small, many or few— repay wrongs with rightness. Deal with the difficult through the easy: work on the great when it’s small, on the hardest task when it’s uncomplicated. The […]
Is that real? Absolutely, and the comparison is perfect. If I were talking about one of the last three; hot, hotter and hottest vintages alone someone might think that I was just lucky. What about this year? Not an easy year for mildew and botrytis in the vineyards. Conditions were perfect for infections. But, what if […]
In 2015, Washington State had one of the hottest years on record, but is there such a thing as too much irrigation in a hot season? We all know demand goes up, and models for irrigation are not perfect. My work has suggested there is such a thing as too much irrigation, even in a […]