La Vista Ecological Learning Center

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

Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I'm just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say! Please, universal soul, practice some...

April is the lovely month when native wildflowers and trees start blooming, often where they were not planted since they are NATIVES! ...

This wonderful month invites us outdoors to listen as nature awakens. On sunny days we hear cardinals again after a winter of silence...

In our area, February is one of the months we enjoy bald eagles as they travel the Mississippi flyway looking for food. Although there is...

Let these words from Mary Oliver's book Upstream inspire you as you embrace the bare bones of January’s energy which invites us to be...

Birds are special messengers for those striving to deepen Earth spirituality. They remind us that we are free, that the heavens and the...

In our Great Rivers ecoregion we are seeing goldenrod all over the place, bringing to mind Mary Oliver’s poem Goldenrod which honors this...

This month we align our energies with the marvelous monarch seen in this picture taken in La Vista’s pollinator garden where the monarch...

“Every second of life is filled with precious jewels.” Go outdoors in the early morning in August and sit with the above quote by Thich...