Owls Among the Meteors
I’m speeding down a dark Vermont road, hurtling through a star-studded October night on an urgent quest: to witness the banding of one of the world’s smallest owls, the northern saw-whet. Continue reading
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Gods Among Us
Monument Valley is a hallucination without drugs. It is a kaleidoscope of colors that turns by the sun’s wrist. Red sandstone bleeds into pink and deepens into lavender, fading into blue Continue reading
Essence of Lavender
(Editor’s Note: Katrina Vandenberg will be included in a new Orion book, “The Nature of Love,” a collection of love stories from over two dozen writers, arriving in time for Valentine’s Continue reading
One but Not the Same
The sun was setting as my backpacking group and I headed back to our campsite from Cinder Cone in Lassen Volcanic National Park. We walked in silence, falling into a rhythm. Continue reading
Wild Borders
My son, just five years old and spry, shambles down a small, dry, high desert wash beneath junipers and ocotillo, mumbling a song. I listen to his words, mostly fun nonsense Continue reading