Outdoor Office on Melodious Creek
Call this creek Melodius, our name for a stream that skips like a light-footed child. Melodius sings…
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She Walks in Beauty
“She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that’s best of dark…
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Pollen Storm
High winds shake the ponderosas. Golden pollen pours from male cones. Thunder growls above lava fields. Skies…
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A Canyon Wren Sings from the Lava
Canyon Wren song rainbows the morning in a falling arc of three-second beauty, the fluted notes slowing…
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Come Home to Nature: Shelter in Place Tips for the Pandemic
Italians are singing from the balconies like birds chorusing springtime renewal. As we, too, face the likelihood…
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backyards | bees | birds | climate change | conservation | flowers | Nature
Pluck Seeds from a Star
Pluck seeds from a star Hold tight to the swaying stem Siskin on sunflower Our front yard…
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The Tug of Home and our Pollinator Garden
Just as I’m about to head to the Wild East for an Appalachian Trail adventure in the…
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backyards | butterflies | conservation | flowers | Nature
Everywhere is Home
Home. Wake to the whir of rufous hummingbird wings outside our bedroom window. Rise to feed our…
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bees | birds | butterflies | flowers | Nature
In Praise of Bees in Our Yards
A burly bumblebee nose dives into the unfurling gold petals of a California poppy and vanishes. I…
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