I really couldn’t ignore them: the sounds of a Wren chirping in the early morning. Sometimes it was two Wrens. After a few days, and...

It was the end of the first week of March and the weather was indecisive. Rain and the last of winter temperatures were in the forecast...

When all the world went on lockdown and the USA joined them in mid-March 2020, something began to happen: people started noticing the...

Morning lit the rural road and created dew-glimmers in the fields as I approached Sheepcote Farm. Now, a mere 10 minutes later, that...

A Canadian Goose had been here. Or, perhaps, a Mallard or the Great Egret who had stood there preening herself like a model cast from...

The creek widened and then narrowed, then swirled its skirt out again as it made its way around a bend...

In early May, I came upon two Barred Owlets in Briarlake Forest Park. It was a deep, beautiful, and unexpectedly shared experience. ...

When I pause I can see it: the first shoots breaking through the soil, drawn by the sun's rays and the pull of nature's rhythm. It is...

This summer, the open road stretched out before me as I sat in the passenger seat and took in sights and deep conversations. I saw the...

I'm not sure how I ignored the sound for so long. That squawking -- somewhere near our backyard, and loud enough to hear through the...

The brilliant red cardinal has been on those bare branches for much of today. I saw him several times from my own, warmer perch – I,...

"What stage of life are you in?" I was asked this question today. While it seems like a basic question, it really only is on the surface....

A friend called to tell me that a woman in a nearby neighborhood was tagging and releasing Monarch Butterflies in her garden that...

I needed to go back to the place from which I'd started...to take a closer look. Right around me. The April days had (literally) been...

There is a lot to be said for just sitting and looking. Waiting. Not knowing what, if anything, will change, and finding the surprises in...

[Thoughts on mindset...cognizant that we aren't in control but how often I try...] I have been thinking a lot about how to enter this...

It has happened a lot lately. I set out to wander and take photos, and have my camera mounted with my long lens. Just in case I might...

I awoke to snow this time last week. I didn’t really expect it. Any of it, actually. They’d said earlier in the week that it would snow,...

It was even more than I expected. I have always been captured by Suzy Schultz’s artwork. Her incredible artistic gifts, and the work she...