Category: Nature

  • The Photograph

    All day he couldn’t get that fish out of his head. During his morning walk along the stream he heard the biggest trout in five years rise and pull a large fly from the surface. It was the sound of it he couldn’t stop thinking about. Almost a gurgle. Not a pop or a splash…

  • A Leaf’s Final Dance

    In the middle of the end of autumn, I lay on my back in the soft blanket of fallen leaves coating the forest floor and looked up at the oaks and the maples, who were mostly undressed. Each time the air whispered its secrets to them and to the birds and to me, dozens of light yellow…

  • Meet Chickadee

    If you follow this website, you know I’m a lover of dogs, especially golden retrievers. My two boys, Buddy and Rigs, passed away earlier this year, and life hasn’t been the same since then, in a bad way. I had intended to wait until 2016 to get a new dog, but the pressure inside me…

  • Recent Photos – Wildlife, Plants, Dogs, Scenery

    Below are 30 recent photos of wildlife, plants, dogs, and scenery, all taken from March to August. If the photos aren’t fully viewable on your computer screen, which happens to me with the vertical shots, just click them to view.   Wildlife Bees enjoying some April pollen (4 pics)   Plants   Dogs   Scenery…

  • 6 of Earth’s Most Amazing Creatures

    Our planet has mind-blowing diversity among its many truly amazing creatures. Even in the simplest creatures is incredible complexity, each one born with the innate ability to flourish in its own unique environment. That’s not to mention the more complex, fascinating creatures, six of which are the subjects of this article. Within Earth is an infinite number of…

  • We Don’t Know Anything

    We think we know, but we don’t, and no matter how hard we try, we’ll never know. How many times in your life have you known something, only to later find out that you actually didn’t know it? That you were wrong? This has happened to me thousands of times, and I admit it will…

  • Cherry Blossom Photos (Japan)

    Those of you who are signed up for the Sunday Newsletter know I recently spent three weeks in Japan. I was in Funabashi for the majority of the time, which is just outside of Tokyo, but I did venture into the city a few times, as well as down the Izu Peninsula to Shimoda, which…

  • Anguilla Photos

    Those of you who receive the Sunday Newsletter know that I recently spent 27 days in Anguilla, BWI. (Those of you who don’t receive it, click here.) As I plan on doing a lot of traveling over the next 75-150 years, there will be more posts like this one. A sort of travel blog within dingtwist.com.…

  • Winter’s First Snow

    Winter’s First Snow

    The sun rose cold and red, but the first snow clouds of the winter snuffed it out before it could brighten the land.                         And finally the sleeping trees and the rolling gray fields have their first coat of snow.

  • A November Morning

    A November Morning

    November is the least aesthetically pleasing month of the year, at least in New England. The bright colors of October have passed and the winter snow awaits more favorable conditions. Everything is brown and gray and our uncomfortable acclimation to freezing temperatures is an almost daily chore. Nonetheless, since we are lucky enough to live…