Interesting information From Discovery News this week about the discovery of new species documented in Borneo, Africa and Madagascar! Read on.
Fall Meditation #13 – Stewardship, part 3
Today marks the final meditation for the autumn season, and part 3 of the Stewardship quote series.
Read slowly and reflect. The new year is coming!
Winter Connection #16: Natural Differences… and a Blogfest
Today’s post is two parts: first, the nature blog, featuring the differences between three closely related animals or trees; second, the Blogfest! Hope you’ll read the
entire post, and enjoy learning about the work of a few of my other writer friends.
Part 1: What’s the Difference –?
Between an Elk and a Caribou?
In the U.S., a large North American deer, the wapiti, is called an elk. Europeans call what we call an elk …
Nature Meditation – Stewardship #2
This week’s meditation continues the stewardship quotes. Hope you’ll take time to read and reflect on the meaning of these words of wisdom.
“Friends at home! I charge you to spare, preserve and cherish some portion of your primitive forests; for when these are cut away I apprehend they will not be easily replaced.” — Horace
Greeley, New York Tribune, 1851
“In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy.” …
Nature Discovery – Birds Add Butts to Nests!
The following article appeared in Discovery News this week. I promise that you will never look at a bird’s nest the same way again. Interesting!
“Urban birds are incorporating cigarette butts into their nests for bug-killing action and for insulation, a new study finds.
Fall Connection #15 – Fall Ends Soon – Earth and Sky Report
It may not seem like fall is coming to an end weatherwise, especially for those of us living in the southcentral part of the U.S. This week the highs are averaging
in the mid-60s F, well above normal for this time of year. But if anything is certain, it’s that the weather will change. Stay tuned to your local weatherman!
Today’s posting marks the end of the Ecological calendar entries for 2012. Stay tuned for more of these after My Nature Blog enters …
Fall Nature Meditation #11 – Stewardship Part 1
I hope you enjoy reading Monday Meditations as much as I enjoy finding them for you. My hope is you not only read them, you think about them,
and not just for the moment but several times during the day or week.
For the month of December, I’ll focus on Stewardship as the topic of the Monday Meditation, and will offer three to four quotes in each blog. ( I may have used some of these over the past year,
forgive me if I have.) Take time as you read to …
Fall Connection #14 – November Bird Migration
“If it’s November, those must be red-tails.”
So begins the essay, “On a Wing and an Updraft: Hawk Migration, Connecticut” found in A Journey for All Seasons, written by John Kinch and published by The Nature
Conservancy, 2000.
This piece is all about bird migration, an event that takes place every fall and then every spring in the life of many bird species.
The reason we don’t typically see the same birds year round at our homes is …
Fall Connection #13 – Menagerie of Animals
Part 2 of Menagerie features the interesting names given to large groups of animals other than birds. I’m betting you’ll find some words you’ve never heard before in this
bunch, as well as the use of some words that have other meanings in the English language!
C – A Cloud of Grasshoppers. This term is used for many types of insects including grasshoppers. Actually grasshoppers rarely swarm unless disturbed in areas where there are large
numbers.
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Fall Nature Meditation #10 – Leaves
The leaf pile has been scattered by the wind.
So many leaves
– brown, red, orange, tan, yellow –
Leaves, like the days of my life, flutter around me.
Memories of people, places, pets –
are bittersweet, loving, heartbreaking.
A time of looking back – regretting, laughing, reliving.
A time of feeling cool in the deep shade, warm in the sun, chilled in the north breeze.
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