Nature Archives - Living the Mess

We Don’t Know Anything, Really

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...

Snowstorm as a Metaphor

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...

Tree Portrait 16-Oct-23

by Sarah Chauncey | Oct 23, 2016 | Nature

From a distance, these trees look uniformly bright pink. Up close, the colors are much more intricate....

Thursday Tree Portrait 15-Dec-24

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...