Bryan Pfeiffer
Field biologist, writer, aspiring botanist, fledgling geezer, boy explorer. (Owned by an English shepherd named Odin.)
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2 weeks ago |
chasingnature.substack.com | Bryan Pfeiffer
Greetings, readers: Here’s my contribution to an evening of poetry, verse, and music celebrating National Poetry Month and Poem City here in Montpelier, Vermont, a few days ago. Also, please scroll onward to the spring beauties below and my note to Chasing Nature’s paying subscribers. Thanks!GRANTED, I’m not an early bird. I sleep through the confetti of warblers at dawn, and then doze with one eye open to the humans below me going about their rituals.
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4 weeks ago |
jasonanthony.substack.com | Jason Anthony |Bryan Pfeiffer
Hello everyone:The Field Guide is taking the week off so that I can bring you some good news: My book, The Roast Penguin Chronicles, has just launched from Compass Rose Press. It’s part memoir, part history of the human experience of Antarctica through a “culinary” lens. The book is built from a century of remarkable stories of life on the ice, from the sagas of early exploration up through the 20th century and recent years, including my own near-decade on the ice.
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1 month ago |
chasingnature.substack.com | Bryan Pfeiffer
THEIR BEAUTY AND GRACE alone would seem to warrant at least some measure of loyalty and reciprocity on our part. And that is to say nothing of how they’ve become iconic in our culture — from poetry to jewelry, spirituality to tattoos. So by now you’d think we would have found a way to get along with butterflies. Nope, sorry. Despite their glitter and charisma, we humans are destroying butterflies in far too many places — and therefore making the world less beautiful and less interesting.
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1 month ago |
chasingnature.substack.com | Bryan Pfeiffer
A Note from Bryan: Because I’m out of action owing to successful knee surgery on Monday, here from the archives is a timely and updated dispatch that most of my readers have not seen, and which makes me happy because even while enduring severe post-operative pain I can nonetheless bring you vernal opportunity. FOR MANY OF US, the earliest hints of spring are not green — they are red. Maple trees are breaking out in explosions of crimson flowers. Flowers? Where are the petals in those images above?
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1 month ago |
chasingnature.substack.com | Bryan Pfeiffer
Although this essay is more personal than usual here at Chasing Nature, I believe it has universal relevance (even for those of you who don’t run wild in mountains). HALF A CENTURY AGO, as a 17-year-old boy, which is to say a fairly naive lump of flesh, I lived to touch rock and defy gravity. Before I knew much of anything about the world or gained any genuine sense of myself, I was a mountaineer.
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A little brown butterfly and an exuberant biologist (me) make the front page of The Boston Globe online today. #lepidoptera #butterfly #nature #vermont https://t.co/JfnVlB7sHu via @BostonGlobe
For birdwatchers and botanists, for biologists and naturalists of any kind, my online photography seminar launches March 1: https://t.co/e5q0k72UOQ #birding #naturephotography #nature #inaturalist #botany #wildlifephotography https://t.co/gRriNNmyIA
A sedge, a ruse and a butterfly. Read all about them: https://t.co/Zsysmh97Nd #botany #lepidoptera #butterfly #macrophotography #nature https://t.co/2nvH02Dpii