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The cottonwood seeds blow like snowflakes and leaves, dancing in the wind, showing the curves and eddies.   Also, when near a lake or flat area of a river, I can see the tracks the wind makes on the water.  "Cats paws" ...

I like to watch cloud forms  move up ridges and hillsides.  I also like to see the branches and leaves trailing in the stream, bending back and forth.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAUTYiRGTvw&fbclid=IwAR1PRiC7obrpgZJEUQC86W5O7JRWuEnVFMf4Z96t_WnfbqbMKjKthvdK1Tg

Need “transformation” and  “awe at the grandeur, interconnectedness and unpredictability of the ecosystems and wild landscapes”, not compromise.  Need enforceable laws and empathy for the victims, not pro-corporate appeasement.  Posted on October 30, 2015

Trees give off anti-microbial compounds. People exercise and socialize out in wild places. "It reduces the risk of type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease, premature death, and preterm birth, and increases sleep duration." https://www.treehugger.com/health/huge-study-confirms-significant-health-benefits-nature.html

George Wuerthner sent out this Abstract: A growing number of studies have shown that visiting green spaces and being exposed to natural environments can reduce psychological stress. A number of questions concerning the effects of natural environments on levels of...

Here is a poem by Kristen Marshall. She is an active volunteer in the Boulder Rights of Nature group. Link Every Thursday she used to visit a sick friend, and make him pancakes. She often walks to get places. She...

David George Haskell's new book fascinates me. He tells of the music and songs of trees and rivers: the sounds of rain on different leaves, the wind in the upper leaves of the ceibo trees, the calls of bromeliad frogs,...

http://www.pbs.org/video/american-experience-rachel-carson

A friend immensely enjoyed the play acted by Kaiulani Lee. Rachel Carson found joy in observing nature, particularly in the seas and tidepools. And she collected the science, deduced that pesticides were killing the birds, and persuasively and poetically called...

It says that those who challenge to racism, colonialism, sexism, elitism, militarism, classism, exceptionalism, chauvinism, triumphalism, nationalism, religionism, .... are marginalized in historical accounts, yet their protests and "impossible" dreams are vital for change and justice. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/09/25/abuses-history About changing what...

For Colorado after 12:30am seems best- after the moon sets= for Colorado, go to http://www.cpr.org/news/story/how-watch-perseid-meteor-shower-colorado for best ways to view, go to http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/how-to-minimize-moon-and-optimize-meteor-shower

Biking and hiking, I spied barn swallows returning to nests above the bike underpass ring necked ducks, comorants, red-winged blackbirds, meadowlarks belting out their songs in meadows, a bald eagle, and goslings. The flowers are also sprouting out: plum trees,...

Reducing fishing, protecting marine areas, and banning large trawlers help. Activists are organizing in the Blue Frontier movement. David Helvarg wrote about saving the seas in the Progressive. He wrote Saved by the Sea:Hope, Heartbreak, and wonder in the Blue...

White pelicans rhythmically lunged their bills down into the shallow water while swimming together yesterday morning at Walden Pond. At 7pm I hiked up a foothill to watch the sunset. Canyon wrens sang their swinging, descending notes in the twilight....

I went overnight camping aways up a trail for the first time in several years. We climbed up a 12,432 foot peak. Most of the snow was gone, and the flowers were out. We camped in the bristlecone pine, limber...