La Vista Ecological Learning Center

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...

Everywhere I look this month I see that beautiful branching pattern. Out my window I observe the oak tree with its trunk, boughs,...

I recently moved residences, and now during my morning spiritual practice I find myself looking out at an old red oak tree adjacent to a...

One year I chose to make my annual retreat during December, and someone commented that this was a poor choice as I would be missing the...

“The wildness of the Mystery of God cannot be contained.” This quote from John Philip Newell’s The Book of Creation strongly captured my...

Here in the Midwest, October marks the time when timber rattlesnakes enter hibernation until the weather warms. I usually include a...

For many birds September’s seasonal changes mean work, especially migrators who commit to fattening up for flights of thousands of miles!...

Photo: Lothar Bodingbauer, Unsplash Nature’s fashion turns to berries in August. Sumac fruits ripen to crimson. Wild black cherries...

A Midwest July brings us a variety of lovely wildflowers with great names: black-eyed Susan, butterfly milkweed, compass plant, prairie...

June is the month when many young animals leave their “homes” and move out into the broader Earth community. Fledgling birds leave their...