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Category: Nature

  • We Don’t Know Anything

    We think we know, but we don’t, and no matter how hard we try, we’ll never know. How many times in your life have you known something, only to later find out that you actually didn’t know it? That you were wrong? This has happened to me thousands of times, and I admit it will…

  • Cherry Blossom Photos (Japan)

    Those of you who are signed up for the Sunday Newsletter know I recently spent three weeks in Japan. I was in Funabashi for the majority of the time, which is just outside of Tokyo, but I did venture into the city a few times, as well as down the Izu Peninsula to Shimoda, which…

  • Anguilla Photos

    Those of you who receive the Sunday Newsletter know that I recently spent 27 days in Anguilla, BWI. (Those of you who don’t receive it, click here.) As I plan on doing a lot of traveling over the next 75-150 years, there will be more posts like this one. A sort of travel blog within dingtwist.com.…

  • Winter’s First Snow

    Winter’s First Snow

    The sun rose cold and red, but the first snow clouds of the winter snuffed it out before it could brighten the land.                         And finally the sleeping trees and the rolling gray fields have their first coat of snow.

  • A November Morning

    A November Morning

    November is the least aesthetically pleasing month of the year, at least in New England. The bright colors of October have passed and the winter snow awaits more favorable conditions. Everything is brown and gray and our uncomfortable acclimation to freezing temperatures is an almost daily chore. Nonetheless, since we are lucky enough to live…

  • Amazing Earth

    Amazing Earth

    Whenever I think about our amazing Earth and just life in general, which is often, my mind is blown so exhaustively that it feels like I’m on drugs. It all seems like a big joke, in a good way, or a game. I just want to go over a few things today and talk about…

  • Fresh Air

    There has been some stress lately, so I decided I needed to get outside. This was last Friday. As much as I love hiking with other people, a lot of the time I prefer to go alone so I can fully appreciate the woods without being distracted by conversation. So I didn’t invite anyone other…

  • Autumn Colors

    Autumn Colors

    I wish to explain my reasons for creating the autumn season as it is in your experience. A time full of motion, leaves rustling, falling, flowing with the wind down to the ground where they swirl into colorful piles in which your children and pets can play, through which you shuffle as you walk through…

  • Mount Greylock Hike

    Mount Greylock Hike

    On October 9th, 2013, Jen and I hiked Mount Greylock, the highest peak in Massachusetts, tucked way up in the northwest corner. We chose a Wednesday because this is peak foliage season up there which means the mountain spends its weekends covered with hikers. There’s also a road to the summit, so even people incapable of…

  • Devil’s Hopyard State Park, East Haddam, CT

    Devil’s Hopyard State Park, East Haddam, CT

    On September 22nd, 2013, I went with my girlfriend, Buddy and Rigs, and two friends to Devil’s Hopyard, a state park in East Haddam, Connecticut. It’s mostly known for the waterfall pictured above, which is beautiful. Although I’d been there before, I hadn’t ventured far from the falls, and there are some nice hiking trails…