Category: Nature
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Expectations II
This is the follow-up post to this post. I returned home a few hours ago with the usual post-vacation blues, which as far as I can surmise, are 100% unavoidable. I’ll get right to the meat. My expectations were not only met, but exceeded, as far as having a good time goes. We all had…
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Expectations
It’s Wednesday night as I write this, but I scheduled the post to be published Thursday night, while I’m out in the boondocks of New Hampshire in the White Mountains. I’m staying in a Dartmouth-owned cabin with my girlfriend and seven other friends from Thursday through Sunday. We have no set plans other than a…
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Morning (Version II)
This is an alternate version of this post, which you should read first if you haven’t already. The peepee yellow sun rises slowly above the horizon, its vomit orange rays illuminating the quiet forest with its ancient trees, their diarrhea brown trunks and snot green leaves slowly coming to life in the soft, flaccid light.…
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Dogs Save Owner from Grizzly Attack
Story first published on the Alaska Department of Fish & Game website: http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/ Grizzly bears are one of nature’s most ferocious predators, weighing up to 1,500 pounds and able to run up to 30 miles per hour. Although rare, there are several grizzly attacks each year, usually in response to a perceived threat to their cubs…
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Food for Thought: We Are Fish in a Pond
As I sat in the park the other day eating my lunch and watching the koi and the goldfish in the murky pond, it occurred to me that we are in many ways just like those fish, where the pond is our world. The surface of the pond to the fish is like the edge…
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Amazing Trees
I’ve recently become a bit obsessed with how amazing trees are. From a tiny seed grows a massive organism that feeds itself with water and nutrients from the earth, absorbs the energy of the sun directly, then provides food and shelter for many other organisms, including us. Trees produce approximately 20% of the oxygen on…
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The Moments We Live For
Life is a series of moments laid out on a long, undulating film strip, each individual strip intersecting with those of others, sometimes merging, and although some people’s moments are in the same time and place, each perspective is unique. There are highs and lows where the focus is perfect and the details are crystal…
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Sounds
I just spent the last two hours in my backyard enjoying the day, enjoying the sights and sounds, the smells and the sensations. For thirty minutes I lay in the grass on my back, eyes closed, listening to everything I could hear. Many species of birds chirped and cawed and sang, and I was able…
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Morning
The first trace of day appears on the horizon, a dim, surreal pink conflating with the dark blues of the atmosphere, breeding an ephemeral tinge of beauty. A low-hanging cloud begins to glow a slowly brightening red, then orange, from its edges to its heart, and a white-throated sparrow awakens from his slumber, whistling his…
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My Pyramid House
Sometimes I’ll daydream about what kind of house I’d build if money were no object. My favorite one is as described below, my pyramid house. It’s a large pyramid, each of the four sides constructed of a special, high-tech glass. With a remote control, you can change the color and tint from completely opaque to…