La Vista Ecological Learning Center

Advent’s traditional theme of waiting seems to have started early in 2020. Here we are in December, and we continue to wait for violence...

Looking into my backyard I realize how much letting go happens in November: chipmunks have moved to underground dens, letting go of their...

Looking across my back yard into the bird sanctuary during fall brings to mind Mary Oliver’s delightful poem Goldenrod. She describes...

For many years during the first day of our Earth Literacy program participants would be invited to choose a natural subject outdoors and...

During August I watch vegetable and flower gardens lose their luster and fruitfulness. Brown, spent stems and leaves slowly replace the...

Aphelion is the point in the orbit of a planet when it is farthest from our amazing daystar, the Sun. It just so happens that Earth...

June marks the beginning of the summer season which is good news; the bad news is that it is also mowing season. As I look out the front...

Recently I decided to learn a language during this solitary time, and since May exudes an abundance of birdsong, the language of birds...

Lovely April! I delight in watching remarkable flowers growing from bulbs, poking out of the soil, delighting me with their beauty -...

Some say the season of spring begins with sound, and I surely have found this to be true. For fifteen springs I have driven down Levis...