Category Archives: Nature
Virginia Nature Journal for July
The Garden of Eden might be a metaphor for peace and, indeed, for the whole world, but today’s gardens are shrunken images. They are lawns to highlight a property; or a pain to weed and mow; or a chance to … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Seasons in Virginia
Tagged Douglas Tallamy, Konstantin Levin, Monarch butterfly, Stonehouse garden, Williamsburg botanic garden
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Virginia Nature Journal for June
“Hey, look!” I exclaimed as a man rolled down a window of the truck he drove into our yard this morning. I think my hand was shaking as I pointed at a flower bed. “Over there! It’s our first monarch … Continue reading
Posted in Nature
Tagged butterfly migration, milkweed, Monarch butterfly
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Milton’s Mulberry Tree
According to tradition, a mulberry tree was planted at Christ’s College in Cambridge the same year that John Milton was born (1608). The tree shaded the poet when he went up to university as an undergraduate, and survives in what … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Nature
Tagged Cambridge, Christ's College, John Milton, Lycidas, Mulberry tree
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 