NATURE REFLECTIONS Blog

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house came a startling sound, perhaps not a mouse....

27 December, 2021 / 0 Comments

Spotting scopes, binoculars, telephoto lenses and cell phones were all trained up into the pines. I traced their gazes into the trees. A...

09 November, 2021 / 0 Comments

I sat there a moment, weighing the possibilities that this bird intentionally sought my attention. Could it be that this cardinal had noticed...

09 October, 2021 / 0 Comments

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