Fern Canyon Ramble

Fern Canyon Ramble

by | 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...
Encounter With An Owl

Encounter With An Owl

by | 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...
Take Part In The Arrival Of Spring!

Take Part In The Arrival Of Spring!

by | 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...
A Place Out Of Time

A Place Out Of Time

by | 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,...
Winter Trilogy

Winter Trilogy

by | Dec 19, 2024 | Nature

  On the cusp of Winter Solstice, I’ve had some thoughts about the upcoming season. Leaf Ballet A handful of leaves cling stubbornly to the branches of our majestic valley oak, a tree that one day 20 years ago poked its spindly trunk cautiously out from the...
It’s Ok

It’s Ok

by | Oct 25, 2024 | Nature

  It’s ok to just sit here, right? It’s ok to watch the green fingers of the apple tree sway in tandem with the singing of the wind chimes, right? It’s ok to watch the sky-blue scrub jay hop from tree branch to lawn to fountain. It’s ok to marvel at the...