I picked the name "Reykr," to make it easier to find my blog, by a Google search. My usual name, Jerry Baker, is pretty useless for that, because another person with the same name has "hogged up" the Internet with a zillion sites, all for his "master gardener" hucksterism. In my tiny bit of Norwegian ancestry, one of my ancestors once lived on a farm named "Rognholt," which means, "Rowan Wood," in Norwegian, because of a grove of mountain ash trees that grew there. I was going to pick the name... read more