Understanding the Earth’s orbit and spinning around the sun can be tricky, illustrating how appearances may well not be reality, Dana Wilde writes.

Imagining his grandson three decades from now, Dana Wilde ponders the mess we’re making of the environment and why we allow it to happen for future generations when we know what we’re doing.

From an apparition of August to crusty snow and brumal cold, the month of November revealed a season changing and a sense that time is standing still, Dana Wilde writes.

Dana Wilde tries to unravel the mystery of spiders whose presence is known mainly on bridges or other structures overhanging water, where small gnats are their a preferred food.

Cormorants vibrate some living thread between here and boyhood as they fish local waters, Dana Wilde writes.

Contemplating a natural beauty so intense it’s almost unendurable is like encountering an angel, Dana Wilde writes.

Watching a small wasp drag an immobile spider across the deck on a summer afternoon, Dana Wilde thinks of the underground chamber that awaits for the coming creature lifecycle.

Exploring the outdoors with a 5-year-old, Dana Wilde navigates the wild frontier of a child’s wonder and all that’s discovered along the way.