A bit of wit and wisdom gleaned from Nick Offerman’s “Where the Deer and the Antelope Play”: “Let’s own the […]
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Earth Country
It seems appropriate to post this song in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Also, my newspaper column this week has […]
Beauty Fly
Saw this tiny fly on leaves after a late spring rain. According to NC State Entomology, it’s a Dolichopodid Fly. […]
Journey across a Nation of Nature
Five years ago this month, Carol and I drove across the land known as America. From San Francisco, California to […]
John Muir’s 182nd!
Naturalist John Muir would be 182 today! Born on April 21, 1838, Muir sauntered his way from Scotland to Wisconsin […]
Smallest Predators
A wild thought was stalking me this morning: In the Great (scary) Outdoors, we used to fear the large predators: […]
Feeling Knotty
Here in Western North Carolina the mountains and forests are tied up in twisted trails, branches, roots and vines. Nature […]
Silent Stones
On a walk in the rain today, after writing my column on Silence, I observed this small fall where the […]
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