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Monarch Madness: Summing Up
We first started looking for monarch caterpillars in early August. I’ve posted on our experience as it has unfolded, and as the adventure draws to a close I want to sum up and…
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Prophetic Untimeliness
In Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance (2009), Os Guinness explores the fascination with relevance that permeates evangelicalism, diagnosing it as a result of our uncritical immersion in our current…
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Not subject
The very first essay I read by Wendell Berry was “The Rise,” from his collection The Long-Legged House. It describes a canoe ride on the Kentucky River during one of its winter rises.…
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Those who mourn
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” The words went through my mind as I drove through Owego for the first time since the flood last Wednesday. Everyone uses the…
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“Watching Peeper”: A 10-year-old’s nature journal
I don’t often post my daughters’ work online, for various reasons. But I’m making an exception for my 10-year-old’s “Watching Peeper” journal pages about her monarch caterpillar. As you can see, she enjoys…
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Nature Notes: Recent Birds
Here are some new-to-us birds we’ve seen lately. I snapped this photo in the back yard. “It looks like a catbird, but brown,” I mused. My ten-year-old came to look at the picture.…
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Nature Notes: Mystery Solved
Caractacus the mystery caterpillar has revealed his true identity at last. As a caterpillar, he puzzled us by varying the usual coloration of a monarch: But in every other respect he acted like…
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On 9/11
There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he has no plans at all. There must be a time of day…
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Flood Pics
Everything is shut down today, we’re boiling water, and waiting to see the final verdict on the damage. Lots of folks are at evacuation centers. We are very fortunate to have a house…
