Nature noticings

Tiny accounts of what I’m noticing outside right now.

the Aurora Borealis from our deck here in Southern Appalachia November 11, 2025

November 16, 2025

The more time I spend paying attention outside in the natural world, the more I want to, the more I feel alive in my body, and the more my innate curiosity emerges and deepens. Just this past week I have had several encounters that I’ve thrilled in - 3 deer sightings, and today what I’m guessing was a bobcat scratching post situation on a tree near the path where I walk most days! But seeing the Aurora Borealis from my own deck felt so deep and primal and mysterious to me. I stayed out there till after I could no longer feel my feet. I was just so captivated. The photo doesn’t look like much but that pink plume in the center I could see with my eyes. Not as vividly as my phone could capture it, but I could still see it.