My family gathered in Florida for the holidays to enjoy the balmy weather. Our dogs tumbled all over each other as we walked together down the sidewalk between a busy residential street and the Indian River on the East coast of Florida. We found a fat caterpillar with...
Recently I walked down to our children’s playground here in West Virginia, where there is a small patch of trees, a bookhouse and some play equipment. Last year the area behind the playground was full of trees. It was a rural woodland. Trees covered about 10 acres...
My daughter and I have been walking most December days on a farm in Kearneysville, located in the easternmost county of West Virginia, it is only about 65 miles from Washington, D.C. There is a lovely little brook that gurgles through our favorite corner of the hay...
When it is cold outside, I take pleasure in reading about nature. Yes, I still continue to walk. Sometimes I just walk through the unfinished parking lot of a nearby shopping mall, and sometimes I walk on my daughter’s farm. Either way, the usual buzz of insects is...
Our human lifestyle has become so fast with cell phones, computers, email and fast automobiles, that we miss most of what is right before our eyes. We just zip past it! Whoosh! For those of us who are walking and looking, there are lots of small things to notice....
