GREEN, GREEN Looking out my window on a hazy Spring morning, I am fortunate enough to be able to see green. Dark green, shadowy green, sunny green, mottled green, blue-green, yellow-green, evergreen and new green, more greens than we have words to name them. It’s a study in what life can do for a color, [...]
My husband and I were recently invited to the wedding of a friend of his, someone I didn’t know well. He asked me to go on-line, to their Registry, and choose a wedding gift. At the Wedding Web Site, the Registry links were preceded by a statement, which explained that since they were marrying late, [...]
One summer, I rode my bike down a country road, which was lined by assorted levels of development. For five minutes I was zooming by green carpets of lawn, artful landscaping and blacktop driveways, the next five took me past the wild meadows which were left. It was as though someone was standing beside my [...]
One of my daughters fell just a few feet further from the tree than the others, and became a geologist. Unlike her parents, she does not seem to care if the Wood Thrushes come back this year, and I am not sure she ultimately cares about her species (no kids yet) at all, so long [...]
We work with all different landowners, who have all different reasons for preserving their land. But why do we, the land trust boards, staff, and dedicated volunteers, give of our time; why do we work so hard to preserve land? What drives us? Salaries, prestige or power? Not likely. So why do our neurons fire [...]
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