Nature Observation | Nature's Guys Thinking and Pondering

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.

Eco-Activism | Nature's Guys Thinking and Pondering | Practical Environmentalism

Earth+Us: Lessons from Braiding Sweetgrass & Pulling Privet
ByMarnie January 3, 2021January 3, 2021

I’m reading “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It’s about Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants written by a scientist who is also a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Kimmerer teaches botany and ecology at a university several times a week. One morning, she surveyed her 3rd year students, asking them…

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Nature Observation

Why Take Risks
ByDavid Kuhns March 5, 2018March 15, 2018

The field had to flood. The pair had to trek through woods. Risk brings blessed beauty.

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Eat Your Yard | Nature's Guys Thinking and Pondering

Volunteer Pumpkins and Compensating Blessings
ByMarnie October 19, 2020October 19, 2020

This random pumpkin showed up in our yard and taught me about compensating blessings and how sowing and reaping can come in unexpected ways. I don’t recall ever tossing any pumpkin out in our front yard. It isn’t a composting area, and we’ve never even planted pumpkin that I know of. Perhaps Dave dropped a…

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Nature Haibun -- Prose + Haiku | Nature Observation | Nature's Garden: Gardening and Land Management

Why Make And Maintain A Natural Yard: For The Birds, Bees and Butterflies
ByDavid Kuhns October 6, 2019October 7, 2019

Natural yards for the birds, bees and butterflies — and for the pleasure they brings human senses — are nothing new. I personally have created my own natural yard for decades, as has my brother. Where did that inspiration come from? Our forest ranger father, who taught all my siblings that lawns were silly, foolish,…

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Nature's Guys Thinking and Pondering

Life And Death — It Happens. Sadly.
ByDavid Kuhns May 4, 2018May 5, 2018

Today, in a single, natural life and death moment, I rediscovered the phrase “To Kill A Mockingbird.” It’s spring. Birds aren’t known for paying attention when they’re in love. So it was, evidently, with the mockingbird that jumped into the path of my ragtop today. I didn’t even hear a thunk, but looking in my…

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Natural Health | Natural Remedies | Nature's Laws | Practical Environmentalism

Water Rapids, Negative Ions, Immune System Boost
ByDavid Kuhns July 23, 2020July 23, 2020

Recently, I relaxed in the water rapids and deep pools of the #WestChickamaugaCreek near my home in Northwest Georgia. It was a typical hot, muggy, sunny Georgia noon, and the cool water called my name. As I floated, wandered and sat in the creek — sometimes only inches deep, sometimes over my head — I…

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