I have the rare privilege and opportunity to share significant experiences and information in the natural world through blogs. And in doing so, I never know the true impact. A few days ago, I received this special surprise email. Susan, I was riding my bicycle through the park behind my house this beautiful spring day […]

“During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.” John James Audubon and Ben Forkner. Selected Journals and Other Writings. Penguin Books, 1996. For anyone who has visited the Miami Whitewater Forest visitor center in the past 25 years, a familiar, and sometimes unsettling, face has been there […]

This time of year, as we humans prepare to travel near and far visiting family and friends for the holidays, there is a lot of travel going on in the skies above us. Every year thousands of birds travel through Ohio on their way to more hospitable places to spend the winter months. This is […]

She was known for years at Great Parks’ annual Weekend in 1800s event as “the butter lady.” Sitting in the big chair made of walnut wood, she would butter crackers for guests with her fresh-churned butter. With each tasty cracker she passed out, she would share a smile along with a story. Many guests would […]

Something that I enjoy listening for on a cold winter morning is the cheery song of a robin perched high atop a roof, a tree, or anything else that’s tall. I once read that male robins sing in the morning if they have enough energy left over from keeping warm through the night. I know […]

On top of spaghetti,  All covered with cheese, I lost my poor meatball,  When somebody sneezed. It rolled off the table, And on to the floor, And then my poor meatball, Rolled out of the door. It rolled in the garden, And under a bush, And then my poor meatball, Was nothing but mush. The […]