Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road


Tag: year in review

  • Another Milestone – #500

    Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu Nature may not hurry, but this past year sure seems to have flown by. My personal life has been a blur these past many months, and the blogging  has slowed a bit (you may have noticed). I blame it on that thing called work.  I Read more…

  • Another One Hundred!

    During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. ~John James Audubon Per my habit of posting such milestones, it is time to recognize another one hundred posts gone by. This makes 400 posts since this blog was born shortly into my retirement. Like the others before it, Read more…

  • Another One (Hundred) Bites the Dust

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    Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go and do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~Dr. Howard Thurman It happened again. Ten months go by, another 100 blog posts. So, as I have done in the past, I mark this Read more…

  • The First 100

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    …The “need to hold still” is a skill that both scientists and non-scientists need to cultivate, a vital way to pay attention to the world. Through observation, it is possible to develop a richness of texture and nuance, substance and form, in our understanding of the animate and inanimate residents of this world – and Read more…