Caroline Kettlewell

Apr 9, 2024 | virginialiving.com | Caroline Kettlewell

The candy darter is one of Virginia’s seldom-seen gems. One of the gifts Virginia offers is the sheer variety of our native species. We’ve got eagles and oysters, sharks and bears, venerable trees and vanishingly brief spring ephemerals, crabs and copperheads, mighty elk and mini weasels—a veritable bounty of flying, leaping, splashing, scuttling, leafing, slithering, soaring, blooming plenty.

Mar 8, 2024 | virginialiving.com | Caroline Kettlewell

If you’ve spent much time at the beach here in Virginia, you’ve almost certainly seen them. As night falls, they emerge, pale under the moonlight. A scuttle of movement, a dash to the water’s edge and away. Startled, they disappear, seemingly vanishing into the sand, only to creep forth once more in a constant dance through the dark hours. These are Atlantic ghost crabs, aptly named both for their coloring and their nocturnal habits.

Jan 17, 2024 | virginialiving.com | Caroline Kettlewell

There was a time when Canada geese flying overhead in the waning days of fall evoked an autumnal melancholy, ragged “V” silhouetted against an October twilight, haunting cry suggesting the stirring of some ancient, primal call to set forth, to flee the encroaching descent of winter’s icy pall.

Dec 1, 2023 | virginialiving.com | Caroline Kettlewell

It doesn’t take an etymologist to guess why the season after summer is commonly referred to as “fall.” It’s that time of year when it all comes down. Leaves fall. Temperatures fall. For those of us who need our daylight in big doses, spirits fall. And of course, if you’ve got some big, old oak trees about, acorns fall.

Dec 1, 2023 | l8r.it | Caroline Kettlewell

It doesn’t take an etymologist to guess why the season after summer is commonly referred to as “fall.” It’s that time of year when it all comes down. Leaves fall. Temperatures fall. For those of us who need our daylight in big doses, spirits fall. And of course, if you’ve got some big, old oak trees about, acorns fall.