Category: Travel
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Canal Stories
Today the sky is grumpy and there is a welcome chill to the air. Here on our residential street Nature is celebrating summer’s abundance. The robin that set up housekeeping on our front porch is patrolling the garden during her time off the nest. Our sunflowers are in bloom and the goldfinches are noisily enjoying…
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The Borderland
After a day of storms, today is sunny and humid. Over to the west, cumulus clouds build. Just south of Bloomington, Illinois, lies Sugar Grove Nature Center, a nature preserve, and the largest remnant tract of prairie grove in the country. (I stand corrected: it is the largest tract in Illinois). The preserve occupies a…
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Report from Florida
We flew in from our week in Clearwater, Florida, at one this morning. As you might imagine, we are exhausted and glad to be home. While in Florida we were staying in the hotel where the psychodrama conference was held; the hotel just happened to be on the beach, and being off season, the beach…
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Acts of Resilience and Hopefulness
We were down in southeastern Massachusetts for a couple of days this week. Many trees had leafed out, flowers were abloom everywhere, and the birds’ dawn chorus was magnificent. The world was an intense vernal green, vibrant and noisy, reminding me of spring as a child in rural England; I was embedded in sweet recollection,…
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