Nature Sketches

"Their Mysterious Ways" is a special book about animals who help us confront our adversities and rebuild our lives.

Recently I took a trip to the Bootheel of Missouri. The flatlands. An area that holds no visual charms for me. But these flatlands are also home to a very special Natural Area. A swamp. A place of great beauty and mystery where one feels like one has entered a world ...

The joy of life, to me, comes from a sense of being where I belong, living the life I have chosen to live.

Beautiful Ozark jewels are not mined and made into baubles to adorn humans. Ozark jewels adorn the dark green hollows of the Ozark hills, with their basins of aqua blue water.

One of my favorite trees is the sycamore, and in my woods, sycamores can only be found growing along the little stream that meanders through there.

A drive on Crowley's Rdige Parkway is a pleasant experience for a nature lover. But there is a different kind of attraction in Piggott, Arkansas, too, one that draws people there from all over the country.

A retold Ozark tale about an old recluse who loved flowers, and how those flowers paid back for his devotion, in the end.

April is my favorite spring month, and if I were a poet, I'd write an entire book of poems just about her. April pleasures in the woods are ethereal and fleeting. They are gone in the blink of an eye, it seems.

Grand Gulf, also known as the "Little Grand Canyon of the Ozarks," is considered a geological wonder, and when I went hiking through its scenic, winding, vertical walls, I was privvy to its spectacular sights.

This week, I’ve decided to try my hand at a book review-something new for me. So I hope I can do justice to a very special book, a book about the animals, both tame and wild, that share our beautiful planet earth with us, enriching our lives.