by Louie Ferrera | Jul 12, 2025 | Meditations, Nature
Some things just never get old, spending time among the giant redwood trees of Northern California is one of those things. The coast redwood, sequoia sempervirens, is found only along a narrow band of coastal California from Big Sur in the south to just above the...
by Louie Ferrera | Jun 23, 2025 | Meditations, Nature
A Real Life Dr. Seuss Tree The coconut palm is a real life Dr. Seuss tree and a symbol of the tropics the world over. The trunk twists and turns skyward at crazy angles, the more extreme of which makes me wonder how the tree manages to stay rooted in the ground. A...
by Louie Ferrera | May 12, 2025 | Nature
The Fern Canyon Trail is an enchanted, serpentine meander, it follows tranquil Little River as it makes its way through the dappled forest light of Van Damme State Park on the Mendocino Coast. The voices of this gentle river are varied; shape-shifting tones that are...
by Louie Ferrera | Mar 27, 2025 | Nature
Yesterday at around 11:00am I saw a Great Horned Owl on the creek trail near my house. I’ve walked and biked this trail hundreds of times, seen all manner of aquatic birds and songbirds, river otters and turtles but never once an owl. I had originally planned on doing...
by Louie Ferrera | Mar 23, 2025 | Meditations, Nature
The saying Spring has sprung is misleading. The word sprung implies something that happened immediately, unexpectedly, as in She sprung out from behind the tree to surprise me. I guess one could say that spring has indeed sprung…if you’ve been living life with...
by Louie Ferrera | Feb 23, 2025 | Nature
The sleepy little village of Yelapa, Mexico appears like a dream as our water taxi speeds south from Puerto Vallarta along the coast of Banderas Bay. We round a promontory and there it is, a perfect crescent scooped out of the land, it’s all azure sea and golden sand,...
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When I first moved back to Eugene from Ireland, I lived in a rental in one of the oldest neighborhoods,…
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