by admin | Apr 22, 2021 | Lightning Update
On Earth Day 2021, we offer these words from the poet Julie Cadwallader-Staub. Praying In the garden early, I’mtransplanting echinacea while robins and flycatchers confirm that our winter–complicated and compoundedby COVID–has succumbed to spring at...
by admin | Feb 17, 2021 | Lightning Update
How many birds are killed by vehicles along a single stretch of rural highway? (Photos: above — Janet Griffin/Shutterstock; below — Jay Falstad) From time to time, these updates share information that may not be the best of news, but does shed light on the...
by admin | Jan 20, 2021 | Lightning Update
News and images of this week’s closures of the National Mall and its memorials, the U.S. Capitol, and public streets in Washington are arresting. And yet, there have been so many dramatic images from public open space in the past year. Park closures from the...
by admin | Jan 13, 2021 | Lightning Update
Under the U.S. Capitol dome. (All photos: J. Doherty; drawing: Architect of the Capitol) By Wendy O’Sullivan & Jonathan Doherty Many are still processing what happened to our nation last week and trying to understand what comes next. We are also. What is...
by admin | Jan 5, 2021 | Lightning Update
As we start a new year — following one that was so many things, but above all eye opening — it seems like a good time to think about how we make 2021 an improvement. Yes, new year resolutions can get tiresome, but they’re really just setting out some...
