EARTH… ODE TO SAND (Indiana Dunes) 29 Apr 2019 ODE TO SAND (Indiana Dunes) by Steve Brammell Henry Chandler Cowles, at the University of Chicago, developed a more formal concept of succession. Cowles studied vegetation development on the ever…
Nature Photography Fern 16 Apr 20195 Apr 2019 Fern - from the Nature Blues Series. Photograph by Libby Young. I am a photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa. I am working on a series of botanical and…
Nature Poetry Hushed Morning 14 Apr 201912 Apr 2019 The sun struggles to stand up tall, above the horizon. The blue sky of morning drags behind the yellow rays, Brushes away the purples of night. Birds chirp, eagerly, beyond…
Nature Seedlings 12 Apr 201911 Apr 2019 The soft earth below my toes gleans the soil to swaddle these tiny seeds... readying their sprouts to rise towards sunup... that magnificent moment rarely witnessed... where emptiness becomes growth where…
Nature Poetry Going 10 Apr 20195 Apr 2019 I think sometimes in silence are sweet tales because what else am I? lying leaves, baring trees springing wintered truth that haunts in the shadows of summer Blindly, butterfly-searching youth…
Nature Writing Grieving Through Nature By Carol Flake Chapman 8 Apr 20198 Apr 2019 During the first few terrible weeks after my husband died in a kayaking accident on a wild river in Guatemala, I wondered why something so momentous and truly awful could…
Nature Poetry Robed In Vines 7 Apr 20195 Apr 2019 There were young Trees— reaching with fruitless branches into dreamless stew — wishing they had never welcomed the stranger vines, which creep toward their tips, filching the clean air of…
