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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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What Is It? Nature’s Guys Want To Learn!
ByDavid Kuhns March 18, 2018March 18, 2018

I confess: Nature’s Guys don’t know everything! Especially about the flora and fauna of Northwest Georgia, where I just moved. But this morning in mid-March, a whole bunch of birds’ songs hit my ears. And I’m curious: What ARE they? So we decided to start a new section of Nature’s Guys, called “What Is It?…

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Take Time To Ground Create: Free Verse
ByDavid Kuhns June 6, 2019August 29, 2019

I used to take time to ground, to create, to think, to revel in nature. It wasn’t until I taught others how and why to do it that I realized: I’d stopped. Creativity is life, and I’d let myself die. No more.

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Frost Flowers from Crownbeard Wildflowers
ByDavid Kuhns January 4, 2022January 4, 2022

Our Wildflower Spiral on SpiritTreeFarms is home to crownbeard wildflowers in the summer and frost flowers with the first hard freezes of late autumn. But what are frost flowers and how do they form? Watch the video to find out! (Or read more). Dead Crownbeard Stems Wick Up Water Which Freezes Into Frost Flowers Crownbeards…

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Canoeing West Chickamauga Creek – Nature Bathing
ByDavid Kuhns August 4, 2022August 4, 2022

Canoeing, kayaking, floating, swimming — I was born to be on the water. Lucky us: We LIVE on West Chickamauga Creek, the boundary between Walker County and Catoosa County in Northwest Georgia. Our 6-acre Spirit Tree Farms property is across the creek from the #ChickamaugaNationalMilitaryPark (actually in the Southeast corner of the park, where there’s a…

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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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