Blue-Tailed Skink
My neighbor, the blue-tail skink, posed for me this afternoon. This beautiful creature reminded me of a lesson, a question, taught by naturalists … and some wise teachers who spend…
Tag: Blue Ridge
A Congregation of Feathers
The Life of Nature presses on, as we earthbound bipeds struggle with disease, death and what tomorrow may bring … Reflections from a Congregation of Feathers In “The Ways of…
Feeling Knotty
Here in Western North Carolina the mountains and forests are tied up in twisted trails, branches, roots and vines. Nature can be so knotty.
Windbags and Blowhards
First snow of the season here in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Might slip to around 12 degrees tonight. Icy cold winds whistling down the hollers. Blowing hard. And this, from…
No Holidays for Animals
One of our neighbors came calling this morning of Passover and Easter weekend. A black bear sauntered across the patio and up the walkway to the front door. We watched…
Highlands of the Mind
I know that’s not much of a title, but it’s what hiked into my head after a first-Saturday-in-Spring saunter with Carol yesterday near Black Balsam off the BRP (Blue Ridge…
The World in Black and White
A selection of some of my phavorite photos in Black and White. (Sometimes color becomes the greatest distraction. . .with the world. . .with us).
