We are all accustomed to misleading or even paradoxical phrases in our conversations that we often use without thinking. Shouldn’t a “near miss” be a glancing collision? Have you ever gotten a “free gift”? Biology is not immune from such phrases, and “fall bird migration” is at the top of my list. Even though none of us wants […]

Hiking picks up in a Maine summer, and often the whole family participates, creating lifetime memories that may last decades and maybe more. When a family stays in shape over generations, a Saturday hike may include children, parents and grandparents. Also, families into good health often have one or two generations that remember walking along […]

DAILY Learn about nature / 2 p.m. in Freeport Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park is offering free nature programs daily through Labor Day. Programs last an hour and are suitable for all ages. Meet at the benches at the park’s second parking lot. Today’s program is about the ecology along Casco Bay. Monday’s seminar will […]

Of all the earthly things that please me these days, none surpasses the sounds rising out of the sunset silence, the natural emptiness interrupting nothing on the ocean or the bay’s far coast. The lingering of the grasshopper in the unclipped grass stops me, and I listen for the disordered chorus of the crickets as […]