NATURE REFLECTIONS Blog

My first post-Hurricane Irma trip to the Keys was in early December. There were still a few signs of the storm in Miami...

26 January, 2018 / 0 Comments

Rhode Island Reds? Golden Comet hybrids? Who knows! The two hardly distinguishable chickens I call the Henriettas are Amish mutts of the hen...

07 November, 2017 / 0 Comments

While I’ve always been an animal lover, my preference has been for wild animals. Leave the wild in the wild was always my...

19 September, 2017 / 0 Comments

I’m not sure what caused me to glance up at that moment, nor how I noticed the writhing gray amidst the foliage but...

23 August, 2017 / 0 Comments

I couldn’t get over how dense and sprawling Paris was as I stared down from the Eiffel Tower at the maze of buildings...

15 August, 2017 / 0 Comments

I thought of my friend’s tale of her own visit to Stonehenge on a cold British morning as I shivered in the ticket...

18 July, 2017 / 0 Comments

“New” seems to be a relative term in England and in the case of the New Forest, “new” dates back to 1079 when...

03 July, 2017 / 0 Comments

Pineland gave way to rolling dunes, dunes so expansive that the ocean beyond went nearly forgotten. It was low tide and the waves...

19 June, 2017 / 0 Comments

Titchwell, I was told by the pair of local birders I’d met while watching spoonbill courtship (see my previous blog), was THE place...

05 June, 2017 / 0 Comments