IN PRAISE (?) OF BLOOD SUCKING INSECTS
Spring is a wonderful season in the natural year. Birds are building nests and hatching eggs, mammals are giving birth and raising young, and the …
NATURE
REQUIEM FOR A BARN SWALLOW
Musings on life and death in the natural world can become commentary on that much broader universal theme. Hopefully these thoughts will not inspire melancholy …
THE SEASON HAS BEEN INTERRUPTED
“It’s a little chilly, there’s a bit of fresh snow on the ground.” Often that is the way we talk about spring as it shakes …
SPRING EMERGING
The precipitation can’t decide if it wants to be snow or rain. There are new bird songs in the air, we might call them “courting …
“IT STAYS LONG…”
Winter. Some love the word and the season. Others quickly grow tired of the cold and snow. Still others avoid it altogether by traveling to …
WOODS WANDERING IN FEBRUARY
February is a great time to be wandering in the woods. Depending on the snow depth, snowshoes may or may not be required. Woods wandering …
ALL KINDS OF “SPORTS”
Here’s a few thoughts on all kinds of sports. Obviously this is inspired by “Super Bowl LVII”, where apparently the National Football League is the …
“THE ROAD GOES ON FOREVER…
…and the party never ends”. At least, that’s how the song goes. There are many roads and paths that we can follow. Some go through …
EQUIPMENT AND THE OUTDOORS
No one knows how many thousands of years ago that humans adopted the use of tools. Of course, there is no way of knowing for …
MULTIPLE INTERESTS
There are two basic types of people who venture into the outdoors, the “specialist” and the “generalist”. It’s pretty easy to define the specialist, that …
STEWARDSHIP OF THE EARTH
“Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth.” Genesis, chapter …
TO SLEEP UNDER A WINTER BLANKET
All the leaves have finally fallen. Even the aspens, whose leaves often hold to the very last. The earth, at least here in the Northeast …