Nature Blogs

...musings from a sidelong naturalist about poetry, place and wonder.

"Laughing~Knees" is so named from the condition that mountain walkers get when descending for a long time. With fatigue the knees begin quivering with each step. In Japan walkers proclaim, "Hiza ga waratteru!" ( My knees are laughing! ).

Dr. Lorianne Schaub is a writer and college instructor living in Keene, NH. As a writer and teacher, Lorianne focuses on the interplay of nature, spirit, and time in the ordinary world.

Blog author Fred First is a fifty-something former biology teacher, then former physical therapist who writes about and photographs the small wonders just out his back door. He and his wife live in the Blue Ridge of Virginia in a county so quiet and pleasantly slow it has but a single traffic light.