“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, ...
In a dark deep canyon, on a north-facing slope where sunlight rarely shines, a couple of fallen trees had been laid across a big drop in the narrow trail. A tiny creek twisted back and forth below.
After the winter snows fall, the trees vanish under the accumulation of snow and ice, providing ...
By: Emilie Scholie, Environmental Science and Sustainability (CFRES), (escholie@mtu.edu); Emily Klawiter, Keweenaw Invasive Species Management Area (KISMA), Assistant Coordinator (eklawite@mtu.edu); Dr. Sigrid Resh, KISMA Coordinator and Research Asst. Prof., CFRES, MTU ...
If I look away into the softly falling snow, I hear music in my head as I stand here, preparing to walk a bit farther into this February scene.
I paused here to take a breath or two.
An old and leaning paper birch steadies me at the shoulder.
I wonder whether this tall tree, which may ...