For the holidays, a departure from my usual nature-oriented posts. “Oh! Christmas Tree” - all true - is offered for your amusement.

The New River Gorge National Park in West Virginia is a new national park that celebrates a robust north-flowing river mirrored by hiking trails.

A great hike on West Rattlesnake Mountain, near Holderness, N. H.

There were 27 of us; 21 paddlers and our 6 guides, rowing and paddling the Rogue River in southwest Oregon as it tumbles its way through wilderness.

That a wildlife refuge shares Merritt Island off Florida's Atlantic coast with NASA's Kennedy Space Center might seem incongruous.

Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach, Florida, is a wetland created to serve as a percolation pond, returning clean water back to the water table.

Wind, Water, and the wall on the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park in Texas.

Perhaps a mile north of the Baldwin Bridge carrying Interstate 95 over the Connecticut River, I slipped my kayak into the river, New England’s largest at 410 miles. It is easily a mile wide here near its mouth.

Took advantage of a day of decent weather – sunny, temperature eventually getting well up into the 70s – and drove to Nehantic State Forest in Lyme a few days ago.