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Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
― John Muir
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Door to New Worlds
Posted in Writing, tagged #KingsCanyon, #nationalparks, #Sequoia, #ThingsILike, awesome, creativity, ideas, inspiration, John Muir, magic, nature, speculative fiction, Thoughts, writing on April 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Because Nature!
Posted in Likes, tagged #firefall, #ThingsILike, awesome, effing amazing, inspiration, national parks, nature, photography, Serengeti, Stephen Wilkes, Thoughts, yay, Yosemite on February 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I have two #ThingsILike today, because I couldn’t choose between them. All I can say is wow!
‘When People Can See Time’: Photographer Captures Day, Night In One Image
What Lies Beyond
Posted in Entertainment, Likes, Science!, tagged awesome, carl sagan, entertainment, inspiration, NASA, nature, science, space on December 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Erik Wernquist’s lovely short film “Wanderers” is making the rounds online, and deservedly so. The piece uses dramatic visualizations of our solar system and is narrated with audio excerpts from Carl Sagan’s book Pale Blue Dot. If you have four minutes and a yen for optimistic futurism, let this film help you imagine humanity’s future on the open road, “out there.” And it’s always good to hear Carl Sagan.
How Wolves Change Rivers
Posted in Writing, tagged apex predators, inspiration, nature, rewilding, science, trophic cascades, wolves, writing on October 29, 2014| Leave a Comment »
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.— John Muir
This video from Sustainable Human is a fascinating look at the impact of an apex predator species on not just an area’s wildlife, but its ecology and even geography. As this article at Nature.com discusses, such trophic cascades can have far-reaching impacts:
When the impact of a predator on its prey’s ecology trickles down one more feeding level to affect the density and/or behavior of the prey’s prey, ecologists term this interaction a feeding, or trophic cascade…
Interesting information, both for denizens of Planet Earth and creators of other worlds as well.
Gone Fishing…
Posted in Holidays, tagged bald eagles, creativity, fishing, fun, inspiration, nature on July 25, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Literally. Time in the great outdoors will be good for all sorts of reasons, and we’ve even had reports of bald eagles nesting near the fishing spot. Have a great weekend!
Beauty
Posted in Likes, tagged beautiful, inspiration, nature, pictures, snow, Thoughts, winter on February 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Oh look, it’s snowing again, and I realize that I’m on the edge of what I’m calling Snow-Related Stockholm Syndrome. When I start to enjoy the fact that I’m buried under feet of the white stuff, it’s time for a change of scenery. Today, I give you Zion National Park.
Just, Wow
Posted in Likes, tagged Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, awesome, ice caves, Lake Superior, nature, sea caves, winter, Wisconsin, wow on February 6, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Busy, busy today, but I don’t want you to miss this photo from Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wisconsin:
Wow. Just, wow. And unlike the Fairyland they resemble, anyone can visit these caves. Enjoy!
Fauna Report
Posted in Other, tagged fauna, get outdoors, i should be working, inspiration, Motivation, nature, Thoughts, vacation, work, Writers, writing, yay on June 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »
[written from The Bush, as they say]
Greetings from Northern Ontario, where I sit at a table in a cottage overlooking a broad grey lake. Most mornings the lake sits still and calm, its surface and the encircling hills a chalice in which to hold mist. Like so many others in this region, this lake is surrounded by birch and pine, underpinned by the heavy, flat bedrock of the Canadian Shield. A small grassy lawn surrounds the house, illuminated by daisies and orange hawkweed.
It’s beautiful here, in the stark, almost frantic way of northern climes in summer. The sky warms around five o’clock in the morning and doesn’t fade until almost ten at night. Local wildlife takes full advantage of the long days, and I try to do the same.
Speaking of local wildlife, in addition to the usual chipmunks, rabbits, hawks, etc. I have seen the following in northern Ontario:
It’s raining now, providing me with the perfect reason to stay in and keep working. But even work is better in the woods!
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