Category: pastoral

pulchra terra

creek and marsh grass
Betz-Tiger Point Preserve, Edwards Creek. Ten miles from JAX and a million people. Sitting above the St.Johns, in proximity to Amelia Island, Big Talbot, Black Hammock, Nassau River, Pumpkin Hill, Fort George, Timucuan. Not terra firma, pulchra terra. Build your subdivision elsewhere.

When we destroy nature we diminish our capacity to sense the divine, to understand who God is and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings. RFK Jr.

bird identification

Slabtown is sparsely populated. Walking the 6/10 mile tree loop my phone heard a Carolina Wren, Northern Cardinal, Canada Goose, Tufted Titmouse, American Crow, White-eyed Vireo, Northern Mockingbird, Blue Jay, American Goldfinch, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Fish Crow, Great Crested Flycatcher, Carolina Chickadee, House Sparrow, Baltimore Oriole, Osprey, Eastern Bluebird, Northern Bobwhite, Indigo Bunting, House Wren, and a Great Blue Heron. It was not able to identify the mechanical bird. (I could hear that one)