• Sanctuary

    Dreaming A Community Sanctuary

    I have this corner of my land that I think of as my Sanctuary. It’s about 3/4 an acre, mostly wooded with some open meadow-type space. There’s a composting potty, a big tent to get out of the rain, a…

  • WPW

    What is an “Adventure Playground”?

    We call Wild Play Woods an “adventure playground” because that sounds nicer to grownups. But the original term for this concept was “junk playground”, an idea first promoted in the 1930s by Carl Theodor Sørensen, a Danish landscape architect. You…

  • Quick Notes

    Captured

    Joshua got a great photo of me. This is my little corner of our living room with all my clutter and all my creativity. This is SO me.

  • Nature

    Red tailed hawk

    I clocked a red-tailed hawk today, visually, and I caught its screeches on the Merlin app. Since I started logging birds around The Wallow, I’ve found red tailed Hawks and red shouldered hawks. What I haven’t seen are coopers hawks.…