When I was writing my New Year’s Resolutions series, I went on the lookout for simple and inexpensive ways we might live better in 2010. And it struck me how much we might be able to improve our lives by making just one small change. For instance what if someone committed to a daily walk?…
Tammy Horn, also known as the “Bee Lady”, is waging a one-woman campaign to reclaim land throughout Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia previously destroyed by strip coal mining. She wants to reforest reclaimed mine sites with sourwood trees and wildflowers and turn Appalachia back into a honey bee corridor. (Beekeeping was once a common vocation…
This fall, my neighbor, an avid grower of corn, fertilized his backyard garden and pinned black plastic over it. A couple of days later, a few ducks showed up and stayed for the night. He surmised that from above they may have mistook it for a pond. The next evening more came. And then more….
December 21 is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. Locales above the Arctic Circle, including parts of Canada, Alaska, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Greenland, and the very northern tip of Iceland will experience 24 hours of total darkness. You can find out when the sun will rise and set where you…
My husband Aaron was a devoted viewer of Jack Horkheimer’s Star Hustler (now Stargazer) when he was growing up in the eighties. Aaron still knows his way around the night sky. Whenever we’re out after dark, he points out stars and planets and entertains me with stories about the constellations. I enjoy it. Moreover, I’ve…
The first day of winter is December 21. Look for a post next week on ways to celebrate! Right now, I’m savoring these last fleeting days of fall….