I don't know when it happened. Maybe I was in elementary school. Probably.
I saw some video, some film, some something or other at school in which a moray eel, its size and strength…
I know better than to be fooled by the FEELING of spring in the air.
I live in Maryland--have most of my life--and I know even a mild winter such as how this one…
I live near.a lake. Not a real lake, that is, because I live in Maryland, and while we get to boast being home in large part to the Chesapeake Bay along with being…
An evening walk around #LakeElkhorn, spinning my fire staff as I did (working on my chi roll), listening to classical guitar ... and this--THIS!--was my backdrop.
'Tis the season of late summer. Of early fall harvests. The time when many a plant give their last hurrah, their fruit, their seeds.
I can talk a good game about gardening, though truth…
At a neighborhood barbecue recently, I wanted to prepare the Solo Stove for the night-time "mini bonfire" ahead. I started gathering some kindling and smaller wood from a nearby woodpile when my eyes…
Just caught a mosquito, mid-air. This was not a capture-and-release exercise.
Photo source.
Spring in Maryland: it's like this most years, is it not?
this
First, it's cool as we transition from winter into spring. It rains sometimes; it's sunny and near-perfect other times; the world…
It does not matter whether the cherry blossoms and first wave of spring flowers come early in the season or late. It does not matter whether a particular spring is wet and cool…
Well, this certainly wasn't anything I was expecting to see upon coming home this afternoon.
bear witness to the journey
Poor little thing must have traversed earlier today rather hot asphalt, then it…
I‘ve been noticing more of my hair these past few days. Not the hair ON my head, but the hair FROM my head that’s now on the bathroom counter, on my clothes, even,…
How did I go from wearing a cashmere top, wool socks and boots but a few days ago to, now, sweating in a tank top, light summer skirt and bare feet?
Then the weather…