A blog about our curious, confused connection to nature. Are we a part of it or separate from it? Or both? In these days when nature is declining in our lives, how do we restore some balance, individually and collectively?
The post on our community bulletin board app caught my eye: “Healthy, mature oak trees in Cambridge set for chopping block—as temps go up, big trees go down.” One of our local schools is being significantly enlarged and city officials had decided that it was cheaper and easier to cut down three huge oak trees on the property than to figure out a way to save them. Really?
Read MoreThis summer I’ve been watching a former hay field return to what it was when we first moved to New Hampshire decades ago: a gorgeous meadow, filled with perky daisies, regal lupus waving in the wind, slender foxglove, golden columbine, corydalis with its blue and yellow heart-shaped flowers. Recently, the wild blueberries on the fringes of the hayfield have begun to explore the interior.
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