by Sarah Chauncey | Mar 27, 2017 | Nature
None of us really knows what we’re talking about. Not me, not you, not anybody else. I mean, we know some relative things about living on this planet, but in the big picture, the absolute? Nothing. We live in a culture where there’s a premium on having...
by Sarah Chauncey | Feb 10, 2017 | Nature
The accumulated snow from the past two weeks finally began melting today, as temperatures moved slightly above freezing for the first time in…what seems like a very long time. As I was walking, I passed the juniper bush in the photo above. It’s right...
by Sarah Chauncey | Oct 23, 2016 | Nature
From a distance, these trees look uniformly bright pink. Up close, the colors are much more intricate....
by Sarah Chauncey | Dec 24, 2015 | Life, Nature
This is the photo that made me start seeing #AliensInArbutus (Arbutus is a type of tree that only grows in warm, temperate regions. Often windswept, and almost always gnarled, with sinewy green limbs and peeling orange bark, arbutus trees are works of art. And...
by Sarah Chauncey | Nov 26, 2015 | Nature
Nature has a sense of organization, of patterns, that I’m not sure the human mind can...
by Sarah Chauncey | Nov 19, 2015 | Nature
Even trees make duckface sometimes. (Or is it a Mona Lisa...