a trip to the haunted forest
with one daughter
two pre-teen grandies
and me
hearts pumping, adrenaline spiking
three generations
shrieking and running the whole way through!
—
“what terrified me will terrify others;
and i need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.” –mary shelley
“i would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else,
and that our dignity and our chances are one.
the farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family;
and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list.
the pine tree, the leopard, the river, and ourselves –
we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together.
we are each other’s destiny.”
-mary oliver
Upstream: Selected Essays
crossing the continental divide
into the pacific region
for a visit to canto del rio and a hike into the cloud forest
one of the most unique environments in the world
surviving on costa rica’s mountaintops
incredibly quiet and powerful
the cloud forests are formed by a combination of wind and geography.
—
“in the cloud forest the fog is taken into the plants, thus ever clearing the air and feeding the streams. these forests are sacred, for they both bring flowing water to the ecosystem and hold the earth in place during the rains.”
-angela abraham
just booked my next adventure
off to the rainforest in costa rica
104 days from now.
they had me at
coffee, monkeys, trees, water, the unknown, and chocolate.
—
“the rainforests hold answers to questions we have yet to ask.”
-mark plotkin
a kind tribute
to my little himilayan irish kitty
yeti kennedy
from my compassionate vet’s office
in a perfect circle
he
appeared from the wild
returned to the wild.
—
“trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.”
― karen joy fowler
a warm welcome from mother nature
walking with
2 grands
through
1 park
1 forest
finding
3 sister lakes
mother nature
and
forest daddy
a family affair.
3rd sister lake
“In memory of “Daddy” Filbert Roth
Head of Forestry School (UM)
1902-1923
By his Forestry Boys
—
“nature is a serenade for souls willing to hear.”
-saba k.
—
Dolph Park, Saginaw Forest, 3 Sister Lakes – Ann Arbor, MI, USA
June 2021
wondering who in the woods calls this fallen log, ‘home’
—
“there is something in the trees awaiting discovery.”
– steven magee
heroes all.
–
“survival is nothing more than recovery.”
-dianne feinstein
—
credits: martin bernetti, afp, getty images mental floss
rows and rows of flowering kale and cabbages
all come together
to create a beautiful, tiny fairy forest.
—
“a forest is not a wilderness,
but a community of souls who speak to one another on the wind.”
― anthony t. hincks
—
oakland county farmer’s market, pontiac, michigan, usa
I didn't have my glasses on.... 