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Guiding Purpose Of Lightning Bugs: ImproVerse Haiku

ByDavid Kuhns July 2, 2019August 21, 2019

I thought lightning bugs/
don’t guide anyone, but then/
learned their real purpose.

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Wildflowers And Pollinators: A Hopeful Prose Piece
ByDavid Kuhns October 12, 2019October 16, 2019

I posted this piece on Wildflowers and Pollinators in the “Pollinator Friendly Yards” Facebook page. After only 4 days, I had dozens of comments and over 1500 likes! Obviously I hit a nerve; many people said that my post and what I was doing gave them hope. Most importantly, it shows that changing your lawn…

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Barred Owl in Hickory Tree
ByDavid Kuhns April 19, 2018

Coming through the woods at about 8:15 a.m. today, I spotted what I think is a barred owl in a shagbark hickory tree. It was surveying the white crownbeard wildflower patch, before heading off to a higher viewpoint. Here’s the YouTube video. I also joined eBird, run by Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology. Looks to…

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Earth Day At 50 With Me: Haiku – Haibun Memory
ByDavid Kuhns April 22, 2020April 22, 2020

Earth Day’s 50! Then:/ I’m in Milwaukee’s River./ Now: I’ll plant Earth’s fields. Earth Day is 50! A half century ago I stood in the Milwaukee River in Estabrook Park near my home in Glendale, Wisconsin, loudly singing with other youth and cleaning out the old tires, mattress springs, tin cans and other junk that…

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Wildflowers and Butterfly Beauty: Three For The Price Of One
ByDavid Kuhns July 13, 2018July 13, 2018

Wildflowers and butterfly beauty is one of the best parts of rural life. As people go back to the woods or the fields, focusing on being self-sustaining and off-the-grid, one of the first questions they ask is: “What should I DO?” One of the most vital things I tell them is what they should NOT…

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If I Knew Birds Songs Better: What Is It? Video
ByDavid Kuhns May 6, 2018

Yesterday, May 5, 2018, was a Big Day in birding, and it left me wishing I knew bird songs better. First, what’s a “Big Day”? If you’ve seen the Jack Black / Steve Martin movie “The Big Year”, it’s kind of like that. www.eBird.org organized a world-wide “Big Day”, where birders all over the world…

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Lighthouse On The Hill — Port of Refuge
ByDavid Kuhns August 14, 2019August 14, 2019

There are times when I don’t know which blog I should post on. Last night’s drive through a torrential lightening and rain storm ended up at our house. Never has it seemed so much like a lighthouse and port of refuge from the storm. I wrote a long description of our experience, and turned it…

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