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Where do you enjoy nature?
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11/06/00 03:01 AM
11/06/00 03:01 AM
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I’d like to introduce myself as your moderator here by telling you about the beautiful location in which I am blessed to be situated, where I can enjoy nature simply by walking out my door. I live 13 miles north of Battle Creek (yes, the Battle Creek) in rural Barry County Michigan. Barry County holds the distinction of being the county with the highest proportion of wetlands in the entire state of Michigan. (In other words, we have a lot of swamps around here, which unfortunately means we also have a lot of mosquitoes. But we must take the bad with the good on this old earth, right?) Yankee Springs State Recreation Area, located not far from us, contains perhaps the only peat bog in Michigan, though I can’t say that for sure. I have been into the bog, but have not hiked the Devil’s Soupbowl, also in Yankee Springs. Our house is small by today’s standards, but it’s big enough for us, and the location more than makes up for any shortage of room. The back of our 2 ½ acres is bordered by a creek, the banks of which are abundant with quaking aspen, staghorn sumac, and wild raspberry. If you look closely at the area, you will also find wild grapevines twining among the trees. We mow only the front acre, allowing the “back 40” to grow wild, so we can enjoy the many wildflowers – goldenrod, sweet pea, black-eyed Susan, and many others in their seasons. Our clay soil creates flooding problems in our yard, but that has its positive side also. This year, we had enough rain that our yard remained flooded the entire summer, and by August, the appearance of some attractive wetland plants that had never grown there before rewarded our inconvenience. (Oops! Purple loosestrife is supposed to be a bad guy, but it sure was pretty!) Besides, the nearest mating pair of mallards has occasionally decided to spend some time on our temporary pond during past early spring mornings, where we were able to enjoy them for quite some time through the large bedroom window at the end of the hall. While our property is located right on busy M-37 Highway, the main trucking route between Battle Creek and Grand Rapids, we are at its intersection with a very little-used country dirt road. This is where I walk every day. Just past our creek, there is a house on either side of the road, then not another one until the next intersecting road, a whole mile away! This first mile passes between fields, then through woods containing a good-sized pond or two, some years. I make a left turn at that next road, where my second mile passes through meadow and wetlands. There are more houses along that mile, but most are far enough from the road, and hidden by trees, to remain unnoticed. Sometimes I can walk the entire 2 miles out and back, without meeting so much as a single motor vehicle, though usually I’ll encounter a few. But they are people who live along the road, who have come to recognize me in the 2 years that I have been walking this road daily, and most of them wave at me. Last year, to celebrate our 20th anniversary, my husband and I traveled to Kentucky, where we visited relatives he hadn’t seen since he was a child, and spent entire days hiking the foothills and touring Mammoth Cave. I took somewhere between 6 and 10 rolls of film of the incredible natural beauty I saw there, yet when I returned to my own place, I looked around me with a new appreciation for my own corner of the earth, which is every bit as beautiful, in its own way. I hope you have enjoyed this description of my home area. Now I would like to hear from the rest of you nature lovers. Please tell all of us about the place where you are blessed to enjoy nature most often. ------------------ The Lord is the strength of my life and my portion forever. Oops! Where would I be without the aide of my computer geek sons to tell me what I did wrong?! [This message has been edited by Cathy Sears (edited June 04, 2001).] [This message has been edited by Cathy Sears (edited August 24, 2001).]
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Re: Where do you enjoy nature?
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02/04/01 04:08 AM
02/04/01 04:08 AM
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Here is a photo one of my sons took in our backyard, more specifically, of the wild raspberry bramble and staghorn sumac at the creek bank. ------------------ The Lord is the strength of my life and my portion forever.
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Re: Where do you enjoy nature?
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02/04/01 04:08 AM
02/04/01 04:08 AM
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I am able to enjoy some of God's creation even in my back yard. We are adjacent to some forest area and frequently see deer, occassionally see wild turkeys. Many different kind of birds too. God is good!
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Re: Where do you enjoy nature?
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02/04/01 09:44 PM
02/04/01 09:44 PM
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Hi Zorillo2001 What part of Nashville do you live at? We used to live in Madison, Old Hickory, Hendersonville, Gallatin, Rayon City, started out in the Brick Church Pike Apartments off of Brick Church Pike. Used to work @ Madison Hosp., Nashville Memorial Hosp, St Thomas Hosp, Herrndon & Merry - Wrought Iron (made things from plain to fancy stuff- like "First Lady Acres" gate for George Ritchey). Didn't even know who that was at the time, but we learned to watch out for silver-eagles on the dirt roads going to the park behind Old Hickory Lock & Dam. Hope to hear from y'll soon. ------------------ Edward F Sutton [This message has been edited by Edward F Sutton (edited February 04, 2001).]
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Re: Where do you enjoy nature?
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02/06/01 09:24 AM
02/06/01 09:24 AM
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I enjoy nature in so many ways, in so many places. My own back yard is always a good starter. Love watching the blackbirds leaping up at the fushia bushes to get the ripe berries. Now I pick all the fushia berries off my other bushes around the yard and throw them under that bush, and they soon disappear! Spending time with my own birds in my 2 averies is very rewarding. Now that my cockatiel has completely recovered from the time he impaled himself, he is back to talking and whistling again - a joy to converse with him. Today I was 4-wheel driving along the riverbed, and we stopped and watched a family of quail till they were out of site. Whether I am up on the hillside,enjoying the rabbits,sheep or goats, or sitting in a cave watching the pidgeons fly up and down the valley, or the hawks flying on the aircurrents,or in a wildlife park sharing food with the farm animals - the lama always gives me a kiss! or in a rose garden, the absolute delight in our Creator God never wanes.Always there is a new suprise, something to Praise God for - His absolute beauty, and the preciousness of His creatures. .......................... Be Still My soul. Zita
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Re: Where do you enjoy nature?
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02/06/01 09:26 PM
02/06/01 09:26 PM
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Chatham is located in a part of Southern Ontario near the shallow waters of Lake Erie. Our climate is closer to that of the Carolinas than of much of the other locations at this latitude (including Michigan and New York). Some brave souls near the lake have even tried to plant palm trees. (It was successful for only a few years--I don't think they survived this winter). We have Enligsh Holly bushes by the entrance of our front door. On the side of our fence hangs passion fruit. It grows like weeds in our area. We'd plant cactus, but the pricks are too dangerous for our kids--who seem to like to touch everything! So much for those who think Canada's only a land of ice and who take their skis here in July! ------------------ Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Don't let yesterday's mistakes trouble you, nor tomorrow's fears spoil your day. Pastor Andrew [This message has been edited by Andrew Marttinen (edited February 06, 2001).]
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Re: Where do you enjoy nature?
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02/07/01 02:38 AM
02/07/01 02:38 AM
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Hi Edward. I live in Bellevue, way out by Natchez Trace Parkway. Moved here about 18 months ago and like it a lot. Have visited Madison and parts of Old Hickory but much more yet to explore. As you know, there is much here in terms of nature to appreciate. What took you from Tenn to Ohio? Just out of curiousity, where / why did interest in sleep disorders originate. Kevin
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