Indulge me in a story for a sec. For one of my jobs, I lead a youth conservation crew (think trailbuilding, planting, restoration work, and the like), and today was one of our “conservation education” days. That can mean a whole host of different things, but today it took …
One of my favorite parts about my work commute? The wildness along the Springwater Trail, especially early in the morning when I come through. Granted, a lot of the trail these days is bordered by human encampment, which means that the more shy of the nonhuman critters are sometimes harder …
I have a backwards commute. Maybe you do too. I mean that I bike the opposite direction from most people — and though I’m biking early enough that I mostly don’t see them, I know that if I left two hours later I would see hordes of cyclists whooshing past …
January 20th was the first day I heard frogs this season. I know, because it was exciting enough that I wrote it in my journal: one of the first harbingers of spring. It was a magical day anyway, a then-rare day without rain, though everything was still wet. As I …
