The barberry and bittersweet thin out as we get further from the road, replaced by ferns and hemlocks. Automobile noise is supplanted by bird sound. A flock of robins surround us and complain; “Tut tut tut”, a sound that has been perfectly described as disapproval and annoyance. “Don’t you try anything, humans.” Invisible chipmunks too […]

Some of us in the May nature writer’s workshop took that day’s drafts and re-worked them later to share here. We’ll do another workshop in September, at a new spot, for those whose schedules interfered at the last minute – and all interested others! Under the partial shade of a sugar maple I sit on […]