A Review of Islands of Abandonment In this excellent book, Cal Flyn uses the word “island” in the metaphorical sense of “a thing or place resembling an island, especially in being isolated, detached, or surrounded in some way.” Her main accomplishment is a rejection of the gloom and doom attitude about the future of the environment so prevalent in the … Read More
The Orange That Isn’t One
As impressive as the fruits are, they’re inedible. They are filled with the milky sap called latex, similar to what’s in rubber trees and milkweed plants.
Birds That Walk with Me
Some of them will walk within 15 feet of me, then take off flying, circle around, and return to the ground and walk a bit. Sometimes three or four of them will take take turns walking with me.
Dragonflies: Beauty on Wings
Their legs form a miniature basket that they catch their prey in and they eat their catch on the fly.