Herp Haiku
red eft contemplates nerdy birders across a muddy ditch
Read More Herp Haikured eft contemplates nerdy birders across a muddy ditch
Read More Herp HaikuA farmer plucked a watermelon from the vine and cut it into chunks with a machete. We sat in the garden surrounded by forest, munching on the fruit as the juice trickled down and dripped off our elbows into the dirt. I chatted with farmers in between greedy bites of the snack that was grown in […]
Read More Watermelon and Dead MonkeysSingle-use plastic straws carry a lot more than a sip of iced tea from the glass to your waiting lips these days. Are straws really harmful to marine life? Does refusing a straw really make a contribution toward reducing ocean pollution? You can Google these questions ’til the sea cows come home. For me, the […]
Read More Should You Skip the Straw?mourning dove and kids who dislike poetry melancholy coos *EE = Envionmental Education
Read More EE Haikualpine tundra magic petite petals and great gusts rocky mountain high, indeed
Read More Rocky Mountain Homesick HaikuI heard the first distant rumblings of thunder and put down my glue stick. I looked around to gauge the reaction of the other students. Did they hear the thunder? Were they as nervous as I was? They kept cutting and gluing, either oblivious to or apathetic about the approaching storm. It was the middle […]
Read More Florida Stormsfireflies are fireworks happy 4th
Read More July 4th HaikuIt wasn’t a mole. But it was dead. I didn’t know what kind of rodent it was (maybe a mouse?), so I didn’t correct anyone. I could just as easily have titled this post ‘The Dead Mouse’ but that’s not what the kids were calling it. The species wasn’t important. Its death was. I was […]
Read More The Dead MoleI can’t remember how my obsession with birds began. I was probably in second grade, because by third I was telling everyone I was going to be an ornithologist when I grew up. I remember my grandparents giving me an old field guide to the Birds of North America, a hand-me-down from a retired birder […]
Read More Bird Show Karmabackward baseball hats and red-winged blackbirds bros at the lotus pond ~ dragonflies above tadpoles below lily pad limbo
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