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Month: December 2023

Nature

Falling Leaves

20 Dec 202321 Dec 2023
This is the season… the one of falling leaves. Of course, it takes a little wind to coax them down, gently at first, wobbling to earth in crooked angles like…
Wetlands

Barbara’s Lake after a Rare Rainy Winter

19 Dec 20236 Dec 2023
Photograph by Ellen Girardeau Kempler Ellen Girardeau Kempler's poems have appeared in Wild Roof Magazine, Mindful Poetry Anthology, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Narrative Northeast, Writers Resist, One Jacar Press and…
Wetlands

The Everglades

18 Dec 20236 Dec 2023
Photographs By Brendan Praniewicz I am an amateur photographer who studied photography at Grossmont Community College, and I reside in San Diego California. I have placed 2nd in the Del…
Wetlands

Krabue

17 Dec 20236 Dec 2023
Photographs by Sherri Harvey When I was younger, photography was my passport to meet people, learn, and experience new cultures. Now it is more than just a passport. It’s a…
Wetlands

Tule Lake NWR and Baskett Slough NWR

16 Dec 20235 Dec 2023
Photographs by Tim Murphy Tim Murphy (he/him) is a disabled, bisexual civil rights lawyer, dog father, poet, and an amateur photographer. He lives in Portland, Oregon and has a deep…
Wetlands

And then the swans came

15 Dec 20235 Dec 2023
Honking geese overhead flying in formation This year’s waterfowl migration is beginning Drive the farm roads in early November Search for swans They have not arrived Will it be another…
Wetlands

At the Pond

14 Dec 20235 Dec 2023
forg Photographs by Martha Nance At the pond, so many things happen that do not provide humans with any economic benefit, but involve lives that are no less valid than…
Wetlands

The emptiness at the heart of things

13 Dec 20235 Dec 2023
I: The Roadside A raven’s clawed talon clutches at the dead branch of a now dead pinyon pine that grew from a rock above the highway seven miles outside of…
Wetlands

Bog Scene and Butternut Creek Marsh in Fall, Ontario

12 Dec 20235 Dec 2023
Seasonal flooding of the callows creates a haven in the wetlands for plants—reindeer moss, bog moss, long-leaved sundew, sweet vernal-grass, star sedge, marsh horsetail, ribwort plantain. Yellow, white, purple and…
Wetlands

Awakenings

11 Dec 20235 Dec 2023
Photographs by Miki Simic Miki Simic is a first generation American, college graduate, mother of two outdoor enthusiasts residing in Ohio. Although she works as a nurse during the day,…
Wetlands

Mammal

10 Dec 20235 Dec 2023
living - a reminder to fill, and flush ground yourself; recognize your breath, that rhythm; that beat within you - within all of us - you’ve felt since conscience came…
Wetlands

Elephanthead

9 Dec 20235 Dec 2023
Whimsey of lousewort, little pink elephants dance, only with wet toes. Poem and Photograph by Marcia Booth Murdock Marcia Booth Murdock, a lifelong naturalist and biologist, now retired. I have…
Wetlands

Feed Stream

8 Dec 20235 Dec 2023
Photograph by Hugh Findlay Hugh Findlay’s photography and writing have been published worldwide. He is in the third trimester of life and hopes y’all like his stuff. Instagram: @hughmanfindlay. Portfolio:…
Wetlands

A Pond of Turtles in Kaohsiung

7 Dec 20235 Dec 2023
These are not turtles with pink spotson their heads that go on ocean voyages.These are small, lovely turtles. They preferslow, pensive waters and like to swim togetherin little canals. A…
Wetlands

The Storm’s Approach

6 Dec 202313 Dec 2023
Beyond the steep ridges jutting skyward, Steel grey clouds gather, their edges black. Thickening billows catch on pitched mountain peaks and begin to fray. They bleed dark torrents of rain…
Wetlands

Her Ducklings

5 Dec 20234 Dec 2023
Photograph by Madeline Male Madeline finds inspiration by observing the natural world. She resides in Fairway, Kansas, and her work has been featured in online and print magazines.
Wetlands

THE EVERGLADES DECLARE HER GLORY

4 Dec 2023
How wonderful the works of creation. The Everglades declare Her glory, rainy season magnifying Her handiwork and story. Blessed is the one with vision to behold their beauty robed in…
Wetlands

Water World

3 Dec 20234 Dec 2023
Water (smoosh, splash) sucking mud: dragon flies and other flies plus mosquitoes in abundance, and birds fill the air, also life in water, frogs, all around, myriads of living forms…
Wetlands

Little River Estuary

2 Dec 202326 Nov 2023
Photograph by Benjamin Green Benjamin Green is a visual artist and the author of eleven books including The Sound of Fish Dreaming (Bellowing Ark Press, 1996). At the age of…
Wetlands

Tamar Island Wetlands, Tasmania

1 Dec 202326 Nov 2023
Photograph by David Rensberger David Rensberger, retired from an academic career, lives near Atlanta. His poem "March Sun" appears in the Tiny Seed Wild Flowers anthology.

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