On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
I went for a walk up Indian River Valley and visited some of the lower valley muskegs. I started in the bench muskeg, went down to the large pine tree clearing, back up to the bench muskeg and then into the larger muskeg up valley from the bench muskeg. Later in the evening I spent … Read more
Rowan and I went for a good walk through Totem Park today. Plants are definitely progressing on toward summer. Weather: The day started sunny, but by noon it was overcast with the clouds moving up out of the south. In the evening there was some partial clearing. Temperatures were in the 60s, so it felt … Read more
I have been wanting to get up and try recording some of the dawn chorus, so I made an effort to get out of bed early this morning in order to go for a walk and do some recording. Despite a pre-5am rise time, it had been light for at least an hour already, so … Read more
It is definitely harder to get out and see what’s going on with school in session. It did not help this morning that I was feeling like I might be getting sick. I woke up around 6:30am and stayed awake until about 7am, but decided it would be better to go back to sleep to … Read more
I learned the reason for all the deer droppings I have been seeing in the neighborhood the last couple of days. This morning when I was walking up the ‘shortcut’ from a short walk to Totem Park, I spotted two deer. They were definitely aware of me, looking over at me each time I moved, … Read more
It was mostly overcast throughout the day, but the sun started poking out in the late afternoon. Temperatures were in the 40s throughout the day, though it is now down to 38F according to the thermometer in our carport. I went for a walk this evening. There was nice light filtering through the broken overcast. … Read more