The less time I spend in the fashionable world, the greater the contrast I find between it and the natural one. In nature, economy, defense, and survival rely completely upon what we humans might call common sense. In the general public, experiential knowledge becomes secondary to the illusion that danger shall never exist. In that…
Peter S. Stevens’ explained the shapes that nature creates in his book from 1974, “Patterns in Nature.”
Nature will do what she must.
This wasn’t a summer of sun. This was a summer of rain.
Every storm seems to bring flooding rain. Every pest seems to threaten unimaginable devastation. Every bird, flower, and insect seems hurried
Spring’s hurrying to catch up Spring forever fascinates me with how quickly it colors the landscape. This year is no exception. In fact, since winter didn’t give up without a fight, life seems to be responding at a hurried rate. A quick, unscientific browse through my photo collection revealed that many shaded blooms are about…
One thing any true nature lover must do is accept whatever comes. A good reminder of this, on the first full day of spring, came as a blast of snow that moved up the eastern coast. At last measure, nine inches were laying outside my window. No daffodils. No crocuses. Just a deep pile a…
As the change of season nears, I share with you a graphic created by guest blogger Zero Cater, which I found on the Rodale Institute’s website.
The exfoliated remains of Friday’s purge glistened from their scattered positions along the banks of both sides of the creek. Some were two to three inches thick; others seemed paper thin; into most were carved perfectly round bore holes. Meanwhile, with the sun-heated, mid-day temperature at just 20 degrees, the flowing creek was calmly laying…
I just witnessed a dramatic scene. After a 50-degree increase in temperature followed by a heavy rain storm, the same creek bed that I could slide across on Monday shed its thick ice coat today, as I stood on the bank in awe. Eight-foot slabs floated freely down an already-melted section of stream until they…