There it was, the Maharajah of Muck, the Sultan of swamp. This was not just any old turtle. A very special skeleton, this was a remarkable relic; an ambassador from antiquity.
Sommer Park staff had discovered the remains of a very large and very ancient snapping turtle at the shore of a pond....
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The World Trade Center in New York was officially dedicated in 1973. That was the year Spiro Agnew resigned from the Vice Presidency charged with income tax evasion. A first class stamp cost only eight cents. Watergate hearings began, and the Miami Dolphins won the Super Bowl after an undefeated season.
But many associate 1973...
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The canvas was timeworn, and tattered; the wood… worn, brittle, and battered. But one thing time could not tarnish was an enduring beauty, grace, and symmetry. This weathered wooden canoe was a relic; a special gift from a special friend (and paddling partner) who is now in his 80’s.
After hauling it back to Peoria...
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It isn’t exactly the first thing I would have expected from an old acquaintance, having not seen him for some 20 years: “I’m up to 62 so far!” He was decked out in binoculars and spotting scope and was searching for birds along the Lake Michigan shore. He was referring not to the...
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What do an asteroid, a giant volcano, and an electric hair dryer have in common? Each can be associated with cataclysmic events in Earth’s history that mark the end or beginning of significant stages in evolution or planetary development. At least that seems to be what Paul Crutzen is implying. The Nobel Laureate has...
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It turned out to be a very snowy game, making the stadium seem like one of those glass balls you shake and watch the “snow” come down covering whatever is in the globe… which in this case was over 72 thousand of us crowded into Lambeau Field. My daughter, Sarah, and I had been...
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* Mark Serreze may have finally gotten through to even some of the most oblivious American politicians. He simply stated that, “the Arctic is screaming.” Dr. Serreze, senior scientist at the government’s snow and ice center in Boulder, CO, could have pointed out that Greenland’s ice sheet this year lost some 19 BILLION...
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The sound was awful. After all these years I can still remember it. “Ka-CHOOK…” and suddenly there was a very damaged and very dead baby bunny. The nest had been so well concealed I had no idea I was about to run the lawnmower over it. Fortunately for the others, I...
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n spite of the deluge, our twenty plus year old tent held up fairly well. Never mind that there were little drips of water occasionally making their way onto our sleeping bags. For the previous two days we could hardly believe how nice and warm and sunny it had been, for October. Not any...
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Suddenly there it was. Right where I would never have expected it. On a window frame by the kitchen, like a little piece of jade jewelry, a chrysalis had mysteriously appeared, just hanging there, out of place, on the side of our house. Appropriately it was positioned below a model of a monarch butterfly,...
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