Nature

Pete Salmansohn

Jun 15, 20213 min

ECHOES OF CHILDHOOD, ECHOES OF MAINE........

When my brother and I were young, our parents would take us each summer to a new place in the countryside where we could swim and fish...

Pete Salmansohn

Aug 25, 20205 min

Reporting From Puffin-Land in Mid-Coast Maine

When I first came to work as an instructor for adults at the Audubon Ecology Camp in Maine 40 years ago, I didn’t know the difference...

Pete Salmansohn

Jun 12, 20204 min

Hope is a thing with fins.................

Writing anything original and meaningful these days feels like a very daunting challenge. I’ve been feeling like a deer-in-the-headlights...

Pete Salmansohn

Mar 30, 20203 min

Meditations during early spring.

Spring is arriving here in fits and starts. The male cardinals in our neighborhood have been loudly singing the past few weeks, alerting...

Pete Salmansohn

Jan 1, 20202 min

Brief reflections on a "new year"

At this time of year, in early January, my thoughts turn to the great observer and chronicler of nature – Hal Borland – who lived on a farm

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