Nature Notice

Nature Notice This week, nature introduced me to some of the smallest, yet most confident, teachers in my yard… The chipmunks. Every morning they chatter. They call and talk to one another. They announce when they’ve found food. They warn each other when something changes. Sometimes they simply seem to enjoy being heard. If I step too close, they’re quick to let me know I’ve entered their space. They don’t apologize for using their voices. They don’t wonder if they’re being t

Nature Notice Man… The trees have been really loud today. Can you hear them? The gentle crackling of the bark. The rustling of the leaves. The wind weaving its way through every branch… Traveling down the trunk… All the way to the roots, deep within the earth. It’s a marvelous thing to witness. The more time I spend outside, the more I’m reminded that nature is alive. Everything has a rhythm. Everything has a frequency. Everything has its own way of communicating. The trees n

Nature Notice This week’s teachers weren’t found in a book… They were a mother doe and her fawn. Yesterday, I had the privilege of watching them together. The doe moved quietly through the woods, grazing, watching, and caring for her surroundings. The fawn stayed exactly where its mother had left it. It didn’t wander. It didn’t cry out. It didn’t anxiously follow her every move. It simply waited. Patiently. Quietly. Trusting that she would return. As I stood there watching, I

Yesterday, I found myself standing quietly in my yard, watching a single ant. At first, I wasn’t sure what had captured my attention. Then I realized it was carrying a fly—one many times larger than itself. I watched in amazement as this tiny creature pulled, lifted, and maneuvered its burden across the ground. The size difference seemed almost impossible. I found myself wondering how something so small could carry something so heavy. Then something unexpected happened. The a