Aug 14, 2025
I’m going to a birthday celebration this month. It’s for a sloth. You can come, too; it is open to the public! Lovely Chloe is turning 21. Chloe will be receiving guests in the Tropical Encounters exhibit at Como Zoo and Conservatory in Saint Paul, Minnesota. There is...
Jun 20, 2025
In the abundant summer, mature trees unveil themselves in all their power, ferociously alive, brilliantly vigorous and stretching up. Those that stand alone are particularly stunning, with their strong supports and barky architecture. There are groves sometimes, too,...
May 8, 2025
It’s May, and this northern city is finally greening. The buildings, the built world, are the same, but the infrastructure of trees, dozing during the winter months, is rousing. Spring has moved northward on its own mysterious, rhythmic, and dependable calendar. It...
Dec 23, 2024
It’s deep winter now, when it is sometimes best to rest in the words of others. William Carlos Williams (1893-1963) is said to have been a leading poet of the Imagist movement. I don’t need to study up on that to love this poem. Winter Trees All the complicated...
Jul 23, 2024
Midsummer in the north is full of deep pleasures and abundance. The flowers seem to be in a hurry, leaping toward perfection. The earth has to hasten into the season before the cooling and quieting of the fall, so everything grows with riotous abandon. In the...
