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 know that parental lament about giving your child a fancy gift and they play with the box instead? Sørensen noticed that kids…
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.
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. I called them coopers for years, but I think I was misidentifying then the whole time. This is a photo (not mine)…
