Today is Earth Day. Confession: I’m not often a big observer of days, holidays and the like. I mean, I enjoy celebrations and special occasions, but I don’t often put a lot of stake into a specific day. For example: Christmas is fun but if I get together with my Read more…
My daughter, Hannah, and I stepped outside into a frosty 29° morning, a half-moon hanging in the sky. It was a waning gibbous, halfway between full and new. A shrinking moon. At 5:15, an hour before sunrise on Easter morning, we drove to Devil’s Backbone Open Space so we could Read more…
Recently, I decided to go on a migration-seeking adventure. It’s that time of year when waterfowl (and many other birds) are on the move, heading for northern nesting sites. I live in Minnesota, near the Mississippi Flyway—one of four major bird migration routes in the U.S. It is a bird Read more…