Category Archives: Nature
Carolina Wren
This girl looks coy with closed eyes but is probably acting. Carolina Wrens pair the year round and may be faithful to the same mate for years, up to a maximum recorded lifespan of 7 years. Great songsters for their … Continue reading
We were Pleistocene Predators
As natural is a word with a vast definition, diet is one with almost unlimited scope. Hence, the exploration of a natural diet as the touchstone of optimal health is but a Grail quest. The omnivorous diet of the San … Continue reading
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Confessions of a beekeeper
The blogger is back after pausing to finish a novel Even if some days still feel wintry, birds and bees think otherwise. Carolina wrens and bluebirds have started nests in our boxes. My hive boiled with insects, rising like steam … Continue reading
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Letter from the Trenches, Passchendaele, 1917
The graveyard of Grace Episcopal Church, Yorktown, Virginia is an apt place to meditate on Veterans Day (Remembrance Day in the UK). 101 veterans from as far back as the 17th century are buried in these grounds. Lord Cornwallis’s troops … Continue reading
Honeybee up the Creek
Paddling the Powhatan Creek on a fall day I floated near the saltmarsh at low tide. The mud heaved with armored creatures that I alarmed, hauling themselves on ten legs to run into the reeds with a giant claw like … Continue reading
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 