A Banditry of Chickadees on Juneteenth
A mountain chickadee has come to perch; slender curved toes grasp the upper left corner rim of…
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conservation | forests | Nature | trees | wildlife
Witness Tree
“One tree, by being deeply wounded,Has been impressed as Witness Tree”— Excerpt from poem “Beech” in A…
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birds | Nature | Philosophy | Rivers | wildlife
Bugbee Nature Preserve: “In attending to this wilderness”
I posted a different version of this blog in winter of 2017. Now in the midst of…
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birds | climate change | conservation | forests | Nature
White-headed Woodpecker – Messenger from Ancient Pines- Comes to our Yard
Last day of April. Last chance to write a second blog of the month. On a morning…
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Spring Laundry: April National Poetry Month
Poems of April, 2021, by Marina Richie Spring Laundry Strung pine to pine treeClothesline sways in colorsBlue-checked…
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birds | conservation | Nature | wildlife
What Flocking Snow Geese Tell Us
The snow drifts, rises, falls, settles, swirls, and becomes one peninsula of birds on Summer Lake Wildlife…
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Poems on the Cusp of Spring
THIS IS HOW TO SAY METOLIUS Say song sparrow flittingAmong ocean sprayNot yet leafing Say dipper flexingComical…
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Spring Nudges the Rimrock
Death camas stems burst from the soil like some kind of verdant chicanery, here where the snow…
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conservation | Nature | oregon | Rivers | wildlife
“Sitting and Whittling”- Beaver Wisdom
“All was a-shake and a-shiver—glints and gleams and sparkles, rustle and swirl, chatter and bubble. The Mole…
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Refugia for Big Trees
“Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends…
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