The early morning sky was painted across the horizon line with a soft shade of orange I’d seen in push-up sherbet confections or the bands along the lower sides of autumn brook trout. Above the band of orange was a layer of almost white, trending to light blue and then darkening ...
“But right now, I’ll just sit here so contentedly and watch the river flow,” – Bob Dylan There is a place I remember visiting at this time of year, on a cold November day when the skies above looked as tumultuous as the crashing and dark grayish-blue-purple rolling waves on the big ...
Special to the Journal LANSING – Check your car, kayak or a nearby rail car – it might be providing free transportation for an invasive pest or plant. And you can be part of a renewed effort to stop the invaders. The Midwest Invasive Species Information Network needs help finding and ...
“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.” – Paul Coelho November is a great month to get out and look for the unexpected. This past week several days dipped between sunshine, wind, rain, and snow. It became a ...
GEORGETOWN (AP) — Birds in North America will no longer be named after people, the American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday. Next year, the organization will begin to rename around 80 species found in the U.S. and Canada. “There is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations with the past that continue to be exclusionary and harmful today,” the organization’s president, Colleen Handel, said in a statement. “Everyone who loves and cares about birds should be able to enjoy and study them freely.” Rather than review each bird named after a ...
“I’m beginning on my journey now, but I’ve only gotten halfway down,” – Jim Lauderdale I stood in the woods at night at the edge of a northern hardwood forest, listening to the stunning silence. As is often the case, no matter how many times I get outside, the specific conditions ...
