There’s a field I know that I often drive past on my way to quiet and contemplative places in the surrounding woodlands. I always look, but there’s rarely anything to see here but what was once a hopeful landscape, from a time that has long since passed away. There’s no fence around ...

“Losin’ wouldn’t be so bad at all but I’m always on a mountain when I fall.” – Merle Haggard From down here, I can see a ridgeline high above me. It sits across a river valley and then almost straight up about five hundred feet through steep and aggressive terrain. The ...

HOUGHTON — Naturalist and television host David Mizejewski of the National Wildlife Federation will deliver the keynote address at the Seventh Annual Keweenaw Native Plant Symposium, set for 9 a.m.-noon, Saturday, March 23, on Zoom. To learn more and register for this free event, go to ...

“And I’ll be certain she’s my girl by the things she’ll like to do – like walking in the rain.” – Cynthia Weil, Barry Mann and Phil Spector I remember being a young kid at the age of probably 9, sitting at our kitchen table on a warm Saturday morning doing math problems. I was ...

“When she’s walking by the river and the railway line, she can still hear him whisper, ‘Let’s go down to the waterline.” – Mark Knopfler The afternoon was warming steadily as I turned off the blacktop onto a road slicked with a mire of mud, gravel and melting snow. I likened ...

“When I was younger I believed that dreams came true, now I wonder.” – Chris Isaak It was a summery day as I recall. I don’t remember there being any wind, but the day was warm, and the sun was certainly shining. With big, white cumulus clouds floating around the sky, ...