Ontario Nature Book Inspiration

1 min

Welcomed Visitor

Chance discovery, Friend from the deep forest, Suddenly interested in our poor piece of property. For moments, Lake Superior’s vistas gon...

4 min

Hard Lessons

This morning, the newspaper title caught my attention: The Harder Life Gets, the Softer We Need to Be.” There was also a subtitle: When w...

2 min

Empty Opportunity

One person looks at a calendar with blank spaces and sees Empty time. It might threaten them or fill them with apprehension. Another way ...

1 min

Loon Laughter

Warbling up great canyons, drifting over silent spaces of time. When the moon fills, when the night is soft, loon laughter transforms wil...

1 min

Waters at Play

Softly Water teases the shore. Midnight embraced. The fawn’s gentle passage Across the divide between Sea and space. Gently it massages T...

1 min

Unending

The old chasm finds us, The old circle of rising And greeting Is lost to the winds. Memories virtue remains But its edges grow dim. So ma...

5 min

Elders Among Us / Father's Day 2020

In the North, the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights sometimes flame on cold winter nights. I will always remember a picture an artist pa...

1 min

Swamp Merry-Golds

Marigolds first appear in the ditches, far before the summer crowd. They are the first to signal the birth of spring. They lie in low ...

2 min

Crazy Fear

It is that gentle persuasion of dread. The gnawing in the pit of one’s gut that things will go awry. It can scream at us, fighting for it...

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