Queen of the Bosque Only seldom, and rarely in my wildest dreams, have I dared myself into imagining a face to face encounter with a mountain lion. And in those dreams, how fanciful it would be to presume it would take place with a camera in close proximity. Minutes...
A Running Start “Those times when you get up early and you work hard, those times when you stay up late and you work hard, those times when you don’t feel like working, you’re too tired, you don’t want to push yourself, but you do it anyway. That is...
We Have Been Wrong and we can do better What a heartbreaking beginning it’s been for 2020. I’ve found myself teetering in and out of grief this week while sifting through news of the raging wildfires in Australia. Half a billion animals have been lost in...
Watching the Sandhill Cranes Spirits among us have departed—friends, relatives, neighbors: we can’t find them. If we search and call, the sky merely waits. Then some day here come the cranes planing in from cloud or mist—sharp, lonely spears, awkwardly graceful. They...