NATURE REFLECTIONS Blog

A white tail, tall and skinny as a flagpole, bobbed above the leaves. This was like no tail I’d seen before...

26 August, 2021 / 2 Comments

With their unusual shapes, carnival-worthy colors, and the fact that they ensnare and digest insects, pitcher plants have always struck me as the...

16 June, 2021 / 4 Comments

The first time I flew over the matrix of tree islands scattered across the Everglades’ famous grasslands, I was struck by how low...

27 February, 2021 / 0 Comments

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...

23 January, 2021 / 2 Comments

If forests, oceans, plants, animals and endangered species could communicate, would they describe humans in the same way we describe COVID-19 - a...

11 December, 2020 / 6 Comments

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...

30 October, 2020 / 0 Comments

In the early days of COVID-19 stay at home orders, I tended my garden with extra care and dipped into my stocks of...

28 September, 2020 / 0 Comments

I recently awoke to the sounds of screaming. Despite my quickened pulse, I suspected an animal. This was, after all, my Maryland hurricane...

28 July, 2020 / 0 Comments

Sedges swished as I picked my way along the edge of the marsh, freshwater to my left, the Gulf of Mexico lapping on...

28 June, 2020 / 0 Comments