Category Archives: nature

Environmental Panic Attack

Posted on August 22, 2019 by forstegrupp

I just can’t read the news. Everywhere there seems to be some new report about some other environmental disaster. The latest is the fires burning the Amazonian rainforests. Before it was the Greenland ice sheet melting at an unprecedented rate. … Continue reading →

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Buffalo in Yellowstone

Posted on August 20, 2019 by forstegrupp

When we drove into Yellowstone park from the Grand Tetons, we were headed to Mammoth Hot Springs. We drove through Hayden Valley at twilight and saw elk and bison. Even a single buffalo will cause a traffic slow down, so … Continue reading →

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Geothermal Features of Yellowstone

Posted on August 2, 2019 by forstegrupp

For ten days, SH and I explored Yellowstone National Park. We visited just about every geothermal feature: geysers, fumaroles, hot springs, mudpots, and hot spring terraces. The one feature SH really wanted to see was the Grand Prismatic Spring — … Continue reading →

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April Walk at Jenkins Arboretum

Posted on April 25, 2016 by forstegrupp

On Sunday, SH and I took a walk at Jenkins Arboretum in Devon to see the blooming azalea and rhododendron. We were there for about an hour and walked according to the fitbit exercise tracker 1.06 miles. Not a fast … Continue reading →

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The Garden Moves (metaphorically)

Posted on May 27, 2015 by forstegrupp

I have made an executive decision to include my garden as part of the posting on this main page.  This means that I copied everything on the Garden Page and pasted into this post. My decision did not come except after … Continue reading →

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Mt Cuba Garden

Posted on May 6, 2015 by forstegrupp

On Sunday, we drove to northern Delaware to see the Mt. Cuba Gardens which were established by Mrs. Copeland. She was lucky enough to marry a DuPont which meant she had plenty of money to buy a huge tract of … Continue reading →

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Traveling Through the Iron Country

Posted on March 27, 2015 by forstegrupp

 This past Monday and Tuesday, I drove back and forth from Minneapolis to Decorah, which is a small town of about 8,000 people in northern Iowa. The night before the drive, a winter storm dropped several inches on snow. Driving on … Continue reading →

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Bunny hop

Posted on March 20, 2015 by forstegrupp

On my way out on this fine first day of spring, I noticed tracks. Distinctive tracks. They look like a bunny hoped down the walk and when I looked in the yard, this bunny had left a lot of tracks. … Continue reading →

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A modern “Artist of the Beautiful:” Davis Esterly

Posted on October 22, 2013 by forstegrupp

When the Harvard Magazine arrives, I usually sigh a bit (mentally) and shrug. The articles are interesting but they seem like such a rah-rah effort to advertise Harvard’s greatness. I will usually try to read at least one — because … Continue reading →

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How does beauty connect with self and writing?

Posted on August 15, 2013 by forstegrupp

Some times you are in a place so lovely that it defies description. That was the Waimea Canyon in Kaua’i in July. But isn’t this judgment subjective? Someone else might not find this view sublime because it contains no human … Continue reading →

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