Given the opportunity, humans will celebrate anything. For example, Brevard, North Carolina annually celebrates “The White Squirrel Festival” for three days, in honor of the original lucky pair who escaped a carnival truck that overturned in 1949.
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A photo may seem the product of a moment, which, technically, it is, but the photos of this bald eagle family have been more than a year in the making.
3 Days With the Eagles Read More »
Love it or hate it, fishing is a test of patience, but even the most dedicated fisherman looks like an amateur compared to the patience and skill of the herons.
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An introspective exploration of Fall’s late blooms and vines and how they brighten and bring life to our days in more ways than we even realize..
The Beauty of Late-Blooming Fall Flowers | Exploring the Hidden Gems of Autumn Blooms Read More »
You may not be an avid bird watcher or be able to identify each feathered friend that lands in your yard, but odds are, you know a cardinal when you see one. It’s the one bird we think we know, but do we really?
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The darker the winter, the brighter the blooms come spring. When it seems the world is stuck in a perpetual gray, we wake up one morning to a world set ablaze with vivid blooms.
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When I was 7, I jumped off the roof of my house with an opened umbrella, convinced I would fly. I didn’t. The ground rushed up, and I crash-landed in a heap, looking like a small, crumpled Mary Poppins peeping out of the bushes. I learned two things that day…
I stared at the last lotus of summer as if it were a dying flame. Right on schedule, the seasons have turned from spring to summer, summer to fall, even though day-to-day life has largely remained unchanged.
Discovering the Flower of the Dawn | A Look Into the Lotus Read More »
Though we try to describe the beauty of the wildness we find in Nature, words pale when it greets us face to face.
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It’s when I saw the osprey that everything went truly silent. Perched in solemn stillness on the tip of a blunted branch, the fish-hawk calmly gazed towards the water, looking like a wise old fisherman mentally preparing for the day.
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One person’s weed is another person’s savior, so as is often the case in life, there are two ways of looking at a weed. The thistle in particular…
Why The Thistle Is More Than A “Weed” Read More »
Lakeside living. The phrase takes on new meaning each year. To see the world one animal at a time is to find comfort in the quiet of the lakeshore.
Lakeside Living: Finding Serenity in the Quiet of the Lakeshore Read More »