Nature

An employees-only sign beside a road in Big Ben National Park. There are mountains in the background.
Home for a Season

Living and working in National Parks.

Central Park During the Pandemic

“If you come into Central Park in a rush or with any kind of citified agenda you’ll be eaten alive by the botany."

The Keeper of the Bees

I followed a desire to witness, but not control, the inner workings of living things.

When Mountains Were Ugly

Over the centuries, the mountains moved. Our inner landscapes shifted to accommodate new forms of beauty, old forms of worship.

Burn Me Like a Forest Fire

I wonder if the trees are screaming. I wonder where the birds go. I wonder how anything could ever escape the inferno and rebuild. I think about my marriage.