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December state of mind
Here we are: me and my daughters. My oldest is waving. See? We’ve made it through November, one of the grayest months of the year, and yesterday we made another of our ongoing…
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Nature Study: Humans
No nature study is complete without taking human behavior into account. Lately I’ve had some opportunities to think about our species. A local nature preserve where we enjoy going for walks has been…
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Spring and fall
I took some photos of landscapes in the spring and commented that they looked quite autumnal. Now it’s fall, and I’ve gone back and photographed them again. There’s this one: Then there’s this…
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New birds
Today we went to a new place for a walk, and we got to watch a kingfisher for awhile. I couldn’t help thinking of the Hopkins poem about how “kingfishers catch fire,” one…
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Read-Aloud Thursday: Herons
We’re into herons around here this week. We saw no less than 6 of them at a nearby pond we visited the other day, and it sparked enough interest to read every word…
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A few pics from the woods
We’re back from a long weekend in the woods, and I didn’t get a lick of reading in. Honestly, I’m exhausted from this short “vacation,” for a variety of reasons. But there were…
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Splendor and sorrow
Tonight as we were eating supper, we were dazzled by the sudden emergence of a Baltimore oriole out of the brush. It was pursuing a moth and demonstrated some amazing maneuvering. What a…
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Father’s Day
On Father’s Day, the girls wanted to take their dad to the wetland we visited last week. We were greeted by this little guy. Grandfather Frog eyed us skeptically as we made our…
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Oriole Bath
This Baltimore oriole took a dip in the creek behind my parents’ house yesterday. What a show!
