Red Sky in Morning

Looking from my office window at dawn, the western sky has a reddish glow. The billowing clouds of an approaching cold front have caught the...

Sugar Creek Conservation Area

A few miles south of Kirksville, Missouri, Sugar Creek has carved a network of ridges and valleys from the surrounding Glaciated Plain. The ...

A Natural Mistake

We have a large number of New Mexico locusts on our farm in Littleton, Colorado. These small trees are adorned with fragrant, purple flowers...

Morning Chill

For the first time since May, there is a chill in the air this morning. The longer nights are beginning to take a toll and a potent cold fro...

An Evening at Eagle Bluffs

Since my wife was hosting her book club friends last evening, I had two choices: either stick around to serve the wine and cheese or find so...

The Nature of Good & Evil

The behavior of most animals is governed purely by instinct and their actions cannot be judged as good or evil. We humans, on the other hand...

Pakistan's Catastrophic Flooding

For the past 50 million years, the Indian subcontinent, which includes the territory of Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, has been colliding w...