Blogs I Read

Blogs I Read… And Why I Read Them…
(This page will never be finished and will always be changing…)

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Tom LeBlanc:  Mon@rch’s Nature Blog
http://monarchbfly.com/
Tom LeBlanc works in Allegany State Park in Cattaraugus County, western New York.  One day when we were hiking together at the park, he encouraged me to write a blog.  I told him I didn’t have anything to say.  He laughed at me.  He laughs even more, now that he sees that I keep not one, but several blogs.

In his blog, Tom writes mostly about the natural world in and around the Park.  As he is a bird bander and butterfly enthusiast, you will see many posts about birds and butterflies, but other topics as well.  Tom is generous with his time and his knowledge and expertise.  It is always fun to hike with Tom, or to attend one of his bird banding events.  But if you don’t live close enough to the Park to do that, his blog is the next best thing… full of photos and even videos of the world around him.

Check out Tom’s Flickr photos, too. 

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Dave Bonta:  The Morning Porch
http://morningporch.tumblr.com/
No pictures.  No videos.  Just words.  From his sidebar:

The view & soundscape from my front porch first thing in the morning, in 140 characters or less.

I don’t know how he does it.  I don’t know how he comes up with something different every single morning.  I don’t know how he manages to create an image in my mind with 140 characters or less.  But he does, and it’s wonderful.

No matter how busy my morning is, I never miss The Morning Porch.  It’s poetry.  It’s magic.

Dave puts some pretty awesome pictures on Flickr, too, and has several other projects, including Via Negativa and Festival of Trees.  But I love The Morning Porch best of all.

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Nina: Nature Remains
http://natureremains.blogspot.com/
Speaking of poetry, here’s another blog I rarely miss.  Nina lives in an old farmhouse that has easy access to wonderful natural features including woods and a vernal pool - right outside her doorstep.

What I love best about her posts is that while they ring true from a scientific perspective, more importantly, they are full of her personality.  She is fascinated by and compassionate toward the natural world and she writes with such poetry about her experiences outside.  Creative nonfiction.  It’s wonderful.

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