Tramping through the woods this week, I was able to cross a creek bed that had been impassable during the springtime rains. The view was clear across a pond that had been obscured by the summer’s tall grasses. The source of this summer’s hornets was suddenly revealed, their giant nest dangling from a tree […]
I woke to a drizzly morning, misty and still. As the sun struggled to come through the clouds, a little breeze stirred the tree branches, and whoosh! A thousand leaves fell. A few minutes later I glanced out the window again, and with the next puff of air, woahhhh! A murmuration went flying through the […]
Autumn equinox is a curious turning – a quiet, muted shift. In spring we rejoice that the long winter is nearing its end, and at the solstices there’s an expansiveness, either of endless day or burrowed-down night. But autumn, alongside the abundance of harvest, brings the promise of darkness to come. The plenty right next […]