With their unusual shapes, carnival-worthy colors, and the fact that they ensnare and digest insects, pitcher plants have always struck me as the...
The first time I flew over the matrix of tree islands scattered across the Everglades’ famous grasslands, I was struck by how low...
Each shape is more-or-less see through and yet with a stained-glass pattern that hints at the promised rainbows. Red, blue, yellow and green...
If forests, oceans, plants, animals and endangered species could communicate, would they describe humans in the same way we describe COVID-19 - a...
Fall isn’t a season I know well, having spent most of my life in the tropics or sub-tropics. I remember being completely baffled...
In the early days of COVID-19 stay at home orders, I tended my garden with extra care and dipped into my stocks of...
I recently awoke to the sounds of screaming. Despite my quickened pulse, I suspected an animal. This was, after all, my Maryland hurricane...
Sedges swished as I picked my way along the edge of the marsh, freshwater to my left, the Gulf of Mexico lapping on...
Leatherback sea turtles were on my mind as I pulled into Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge’s beach-side parking lot. My quest for nesting...