* * * In honor of the special day I decided to visit the planet Earth, and an especially lovely corner of it situated on the outski...

* * * Sometimes it feels like it's getting harder to enjoy nature, to get close enough to it that our senses and aesthetic cons...

* * * Eight cars at the gate and the ranger was late. I think instead of squeezing in front of the gate with the one or two smogger...

* * * I figured the walk up to Morse Falls would be tricky after a stormy season that brought so many mud slides and toppled trees-...

* * * I spent the early part of the morning, while it was still too dark to hike down the Cataract Trail, poking around Serpentin...

* * * I figured the "spring forward" time change would rattle most people, so I expected to be the first one at the gate ...