by auduboncnc | Mar 17, 2020 | Nature News, Spring, Winter
Here’s the thing. There are many fewer excuses now. Maybe you’re home, maybe you’re kids are home. Maybe you’re working from home, on limited hours, or in quarantine. Even though the toilet paper may be in short supply, nature isn’t. And it is a glorious time to be...
by auduboncnc | Mar 9, 2020 | Nature News, Winter
Nature creeps, crawls, and slithers into our world every day. It is hard to draw a line between what we consider the human world and the natural world. Really, that artificial line doesn’t exist. The houses we live in are no different from the dens and nests of...
by auduboncnc | Mar 3, 2020 | Nature News, Spring, Winter
Winter is a monster with icy claws, wrapping itself around the roof of the earth for months at a time. Winter’s icy breath chills the bones and chases animals and retirees to the south to escape. Trees drop their leaves in fear and hunker down. Animals fall asleep or...
by auduboncnc | Feb 24, 2020 | Nature News, Winter
When you teach about the natural world, you realize you spend a significant number of hours discussing the concept of food chains, food webs, and trophic levels with students. Food chains are the most basic introduction to relationships between plants and animals;...
by auduboncnc | Feb 17, 2020 | Nature News, Winter
Many of our holidays seem tightly tied to season. Whether their origins are based on the cycles of the natural world, or religion, or history, they at least seem to “fit in” with the time of year. I write this article on Valentine’s Day. A day that seems to be more...
by auduboncnc | Feb 11, 2020 | Nature News, Winter
I spent a large portion of the past weekend cleaning. Somewhat in anticipation of the Audubon Rummage Sale happening on March 28 and 29, in part because the winter doldrums have kicked in and are making me a bit cabin-feverish, and in final part because my kitchen was...
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