To Observe Is to Learn, Love, and Admire

Book excerpt: Not a day passes when I go outside to drive to the Rec Center, that I’ll see and hear birds. Ravens are the most common. If I’m not in a hurry I’ll mimic the raven’s call, if I can see him, and the bird sees me. Sometimes it will move its wings in rhythm with its response call. I like that kind of response. On that same drive I might see a fox. One trip I saw one that had just caught a squirrel. The fox was only about fifteen feet away by trees in a lawn. The fox stopped chewing on the squirrel to look at me, and the squirrel struggled free and ran up a tree, and then told the fox what he thought about him. Each of these poems is about a real creature or entity in Nature which I personally watched, studied and wondered about. You’ll find that you, too, through these poems, will imagine and visualize these wonderful Nature Beings in their natural settings in Boulder.