I make no secret of the fact I’m in love with the beauty of the world. At nearly every turn examples, like this tulip blossom, abound! How crazy of me…
Luckily the days here are long—basically it doesn’t get dark at this time of year—because there is so darned much to see! Up early and going all day into the…
In Vermont we often come across stones and boulders left “high & dry” by the glacier. I enjoy imagining these under two-mile thick ice but, frankly, it is impossible to…
I have so looked forward to seeing glaciers in Alaska. Yesterday on the way to McCarthy we saw several. Tomorrow we will get up on one and maybe also fly…
Briefly back in range of internet and wanted to post a few photographs I made while on Kodiak Island. These are places and creatures that are rapidly ceasing to exist…
On our walk this week we stopped at a small graveyard, Peck Cemetery, now in a corn field, surrounded by a “chain” (now plastic) fence. We enjoyed reading the gravestone names and…
Wet, warm weather and the farm crops have popped out of the ground. My friend Phil used to insist you could hear the corn as it emerged from the ground.…
In downtown Asheville I looked in vain for a place to see the sun setting over the mountains. This was as good as it got, no fault of the setting…
My mind boggles even trying to consider the many factors involved in Spring blooming! I know just enough about ecological relationships to see a small part of the complex web.…
How odd to wake Sunday morning and hear Red-winged Blackbirds singing to define their territories. There are so many different strategies by which the natural world finds balance. Migration allows…
Still Learning To See 