Tag: Nature

The wild places, mind

man next to glacier
Me at Sperry Glacier, July 2023. Photo credit to a fellow Sperry Chalet Guest. Sperry Chalet is deep inside Glacier National Park. So is its sister Chalet, Granite Park Chalet. The next two photos are from Granite Park Chalet’s night sky. You don’t sleep on the ground at Granite, but it’s close…no electricity, no heat, no running water, no wifi nor cell signal, pit toilet, and you hike 1/2 mile roundtrip for your drinking/cooking water.
night sky with stars
Granite Park Chalet’s main building casts a faint, nearly invisible, nighttime silhouette.
night sky with stars and Milky Way
Saw the Milky Way for the first time from Granite Park Chalet.

Happy present moment.

Why do you love the wild places?

From an early age, nature and all of Pennsylvania’s wild things, bugs, flowers, birds, creek critters, fish – all of it mesmerized me.

Heard Dan Fogelberg’s song, The Wild Places, yesterday and was once again inspired by the final verse:

“When you sleep on the ground
With the stars in your face
You can feel the full length
Of the beauty and grace
In the wild places man
Is an unwelcome guest
But it’s here than I’m found
And it’s here I feel blessed”

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Watch the sky

laptop by desk window at sunrise
Midway between the Solstices. Summer the Sun rises far left, out of this photo. Same out-of-photo with Winter but far right.

Watch the sky.

Watching the sky reminds us of the nuance that happens imperceptibly, yet when the imperceptible changes are combined, it’s a massive change.

Watching the Sun’s position on December 21 and June 21 – the Winter and Summer solstices – reveals dramatic change.

Yet we go about our day to day, too busy to notice the nuance.

The calendar and media tell us what time of the year it is and what we should do based on that.

In the wild, animals don’t have calendars or media.

Maybe we’d pay more attention to it if we never had a clue what today’s weather will be.

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Truth be told

Baby bird on driveway in Florida
First sighting two days ago

 

Close up of bay bird
Final sighting yesterday.

 

Florida landscape
Hawk flew into this tree. Chick was near the chairs.

 

Truth be told, life is brutal.

Life is also brilliantly joyful.

Running out for a quick errand yesterday, the baby bird was back. We saw him the night before and felt sad it was prematurely out of the nest.

Right or wrong i opted to let nature follow its due course, largely because i didn’t see a nest.

Snapped the photos above and turned to walk to the car. Three seconds later, screeching broke out. A hawk picked the baby up from the driveway and flew up into the closest tree and the hysteria ensued.

It lasted a few seconds and then the hawk flew off into the distance.

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