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Serenity Sunday: Letting go and taking hold
I have been keeping an eye on one of the two sycamores on the south side of the house, since one of them has retained a single leaf through the winter, attached to the tip of its topmost branch. I … Continue reading
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Sanctuary of Smiths
I find myself drawn to patches of relative wildness in unexpected places, especially amid “developed” sections in urban settings. Squiddy works at the Auckland University of Technology in Takapuna, and a few years ago when I was spending some time … Continue reading
Lord of the Forest
One of the excursions that four of us made from our week-long home base in Matapouri (see my previous post) was to visit New Zealand’s largest known living kauri tree (Agathis australis), and certainly its most famous one. The Maori … Continue reading
Fall forays, flashback 2
As September drew to a close, the pageant of pigments (mostly phycoerythrins and anthocyanins, as I recall from my botany classes), approached its peak. Tom and Ron were due to arrive later in the day to start our musical marathon, … Continue reading
Fall forays, flashback 1
So much has happened since my last post that it’s going to take me some time to catch up with everything photographic and website-related, so kindly be forewarned, friends. My two musical buddies, Tom and Ron, arrived on schedule and … Continue reading
Fall forays, day 3
When I took Mr. L for his morning constitutional walk a little before eight, I heard one of my favorite sounds, the haunting calls of Canada geese, from the direction of the lake. I had not gone down to the … Continue reading
Advent of autumn
Today is the autumnal equinox, heralding the official first day of autumn. I will not lament the departure of summer; rather, I will welcome the advent of autumn with open arms and embrace her. As if to help me to … Continue reading
Places Remembered: Chipinque
Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, April 2004. It had been a very busy week in and around the urban Monterrey area, and as the weekend approached, a new friend/colleague invited me to go for a Saturday drive into the country. I … Continue reading
Flashback Friday: Grunewald Path (revisited)
Back to student days again, when I was studying veterinary medicine in West Berlin…as I’ve said before, one of my favorite places to get away from the pressure of student duties was one of Berlin’s wonderful natural parks, the Grunewald, … Continue reading
Flashback Friday: The Cheviot Hills
I haven’t taken us back to New Zealand in a while, and it’s about time. It was December 1992, and I was driving between Wairoa and Gisborne, on the inland road that passes close to Te Reinga, in the eastern … Continue reading
