Eternal Gardens Journal

Living stories shaped by conversations with our personas

Tesla Notes 18: The Stationary Waves of July 3 (Colorado Springs, 1899)

A storm walks east across the plains, my relay counts its nodes, and I spend five years deciding what was holding the waves still.

Tesla's night of 3 July 1899: the receding storm, his stationary waves, the 6 Hz of patent 787,412, and why Schumann's 7.83 Hz is a near-miss.

Tesla Notes 17: The Magnifying Transmitter (Colorado Springs, 1899)

A barn on a plateau, a coil fifteen metres across, a free coil standing on a driven one, and the long work of finding its pitch.

Tesla's 1899 Colorado Springs notebook: the extra coil as a quarter wave, why a ball on top lowers its pitch, and three ways he measured capacity.

How New Braunfels Turns October Into a Front Yard Stage

From twelve-foot skeletons staked down with rebar to drive-thru haunts built by neighbors, the folks in New Braunfels sure know how to welcome the spooky season.

When October rolls into New Braunfels, ordinary lawns transform into full theatrical productions powered by neighborly love, 55-gallon drums of fog juice, and plenty of rebar. Pull up a chair and tour the wildest yard haunts in town.

The Green Whisper

Early Spring in Bergherbos

A forest that dissolves into light: there are moments when the world softens and reality gently slips into something more poetic. During a quiet spring walk in the woods of Bergherbos, Gelderland, I experienced exactly that. What began as an ordinary forest suddenly transformed into an almost abstract painting of lines, light and the very first breath of green.