After walking down the boardwalk for a while I wanted to find a bench that I could sit on and just enjoy the woods for a moment. I found a bench and sat on it and just as I was about to write about the things around me there was a spider crawling … [Read more]
The Ringing in my Ears
If you are of the mind that once nature has been touched by human influence, in any way, to any extent, that it is no longer nature, then perhaps there is no more magic in the wood. As soon as the marsh is roped off, the boardwalk put in, the nature … [Read more]
Nature and the Unnatural
While walking along the path at Johnson's Woods I was struck not only by the constant presence of a wide variety of insects, but by how many chipmunks were running from tree to tree and beneath the boardwalk. As I reached close enough to see the … [Read more]
Branding Beech Trees
I was meandering along the path of Johnson’s Woods examining the jade leaves that climbed the moss covered logs scattered on the forest floor when suddenly I was jolted out of my reverie by bold words scraped into the silver thinly creased bark of a … [Read more]
The Chipmunk’s Human Experience, Johnson’s Woods Post
Moseying along through Johnson's Woods I especially took the time to stop, pause, and glance around me slowly when I came across a sign. Since being taught from a young age that reading the signs is half the experience from the vacations I took as a … [Read more]
Hiking the Ocean
Wayne County Ohio is wearing farmer’s perfume. It smells of the manure that is thinly spread across the corn and soybean fields. The stench encroaches the edge of Johnson’s woods, a wooden space that is an anomaly amidst domestic plants ready for … [Read more]
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