I’ve enjoyed digging back into my early digital archives to again see photographs I made on two trips to Iqaluit, Nunavut in the late fall of 2002 and 2003. The…
I can say it is the morning valley fog or intermittent rain that keeps me at this keyboard, barely looking out the window, but the truth is I have, of…
The sun-powered rush to grow, bloom and reproduce is under full steam now with wave after wave of plants hoisting their flowers up to the wind and/or the pollinators and…
If I am honest, I must confess to occasionally casting an envious eye on those neatly planned and well mulched gardens. Sissinghurst comes to mind! Continuing my honest comments, however,…
The weather yesterday would have had a forecaster jumping around, switching hats and re-writing the script at least a hundred times: cold, warm, rain, sun…everything but snow flurries and, importantly,…
When summer arrives and the garden becomes a wall of greenness, many creatures—large and small, pollinator and predator, flying and crawling, welcomed and not—countless variations of life, all come along…
While growing up, one of my favorite places was my mom’s “Garden of Eden,” as she called it, a wild, lightly-tended flower garden she loved as her own special place.…
There was way too much news this morning and none of it pleasant to read. If we reported what is happening in the non-human world, the Sunday Times would be…
The term “web of life” barely begins to get at the world I live in, and it is certainly one, even if appreciated, that is way beyond my comprehension. As…
What I don’t know can easily drive me to paralysis. But if I had to know everything I’d encounter on my next step, I could not move a single step.…