News, nature, and community throughout the Emerald Triangle
Here, in the hills of Humboldt, I am watching the maples hold the excess summer sunlight until they grow too heavy with liquid gold and fall in heaps of treasure on the ground. Here, the squirrels live in fear of Sleeker, my small semi-domestic black puma. Sleeker lives to hunt and no squirrel dares to come close to the house.
Read moreDog in Fog Daily Photo Most times her silky black coat looks unnatural and out of place out here in the hills but at night and in fog she finds her element.
Read moreFalling Leaf Daily Photo Finding serenity watching the leaves fall.
Read moreLeaves in Light Daily Photo Before the storm, Lilac stems clasped each other like skydivers soaring through the air but now the wind has tossed them across the driveway and their chutes drag trails through the mud.
Read moreOctober Morning Daily Photo October Morning Autumn uncurls onto corduroy cushions Pinning clouds between the shoulder of her sky and the rolling rounds of mounding Humboldt hills– while grass lays wrinkles in the smoothness of her sky.
Read moreFairy’s Carriage Daily Photo Slipping from the autumn ball, the youngest fairy there discovered her wing had been crumpled in the crush. Hastily she converted a nearby pumpkin into a delicate conveyance pulled by small bats. In a hurry to get home and somewhat lazy (you know how teenagers are), she left the vehicle atop my rose bush with only
Read moreDoe Daily Photo A Doe Her neck arcs Against our autumn’s afternoon. Winter, a hunter, watches. Summer dies too soon.
Read moreSomewhere, about mid October, when the rains have licked clean the dust-covered rocks and the maple leaves are the color of condensed sunshine, Mom will bring home the first of several great orange pumpkins and the littlest one will breathlessly insist on carving it the very next day. After, many false starts, “Where are the pumpkin tools?” and “I
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