Wilderness Interface Zone

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Ancient  chipmunk hole below the pin oak
This burrow has been used for many generations of chipmunks.

Early moonrise in my backyard
Taken in Pennsylvania

View of the Kiskiminetas River through a stand of trees, springtime
Taken in Pennsylvania
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Elizabeth is thirteen years old and enjoys writing and photography. Capturing the magic and beauty [...]

Adam writes of this video Valentine that he made it for his “wife and (if the latest ultrasound is correct) five daughters …  I think it fits your theme this month, and the connection to nature should be obvious.”
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Adam K. K. Figueira was born to the east of where he lives now, but then [...]

Stand of Trees (by J. Kirk Richards)
I’ve been neglecting what it takes
to piece together dawn from old
snapshots and reminiscence faded
as the blush from Adam’s skin
when God’s question stunned
the garden and he slipped with Eve into
the shadow of God’s voice, their shame
a stand of trees backlit by cherubim
come hounds a-bay to flush them into
death, sin, recognition, [...]

(On “Pond at Thompson’s Station” by J. Kirk Richards)
by Tyler Chadwick
The sun has been misplaced.
Or, if you’d like to get more
Biblical, it’s returned
to the dove’s abyss—or
was that Milton? I can’t be sure
as I dance so near the beginning
with words so supple they
bend into themselves until
only the landscape remains:
the field flushed white, hills
seduced into bed
by cloud [...]