Snapper
This was a first for me. Mary discovered this large snapping turtle in the road in front of our house today. We couldn't leave it there, so I carefully picked it up, keeping my fingers away from its snout, which was frantically trying to bite me. What I was...

Forest
Is this what the last forest will look like? Tree in the city (Photo copyright Jim Trainor, 2017)

The Way
A sermon preached at St.
Peter’s Episcopal Church, Ripon, Wisconsin 5 Easter, Year A, May
14, 2017 John 14:1-14,      There
are so many amazing things about this God we love, and Easter may be the season
when we are most reminded of these things. And perhap...

We Had Hoped
A sermon preached at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church Wisconsin Rapids, WI, April 30, 1917 Luke 24:13-35 The human brain is an amazing
thing. As one commentator has noted
about the human brain, “When the astronomer gazes into the night sky through h...

Just a Grackle
A beautiful
bird landed on a tree branch Outside my
window. This sleek creature, blue-black as fine ink, Surveyed its surroundings with bright eyes. “What kind
of bird is that?” I asked a person nearby. He peered
at the bird before turning away, disinterest...