Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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What Lies Beneath
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident Our first autumn in the forest, my wife asked me to plant daffodils. I accomplished this several times in the suburbs. I dug my little trowel six inches into the ground, cleared a space slightly…
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Angling & Hunting Luncheon
SATURDAY MARCH 23, 2019 10:30am – 2:30pm Click HERE for the flyer for this event. Fill out form.
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As I See It
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident Violet the Corgi is an avid, if easily distracted fetcher. When she wanders from the task, I fetch the ball. This is not easy, because the tennis ball is the same color as much of…
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Guess Who
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident Yesterday I discovered a fallen tree that had been subject to serious recent excavation. There was a pile of uniform wood chips, as if they had been cut with a chisel. There were two holes…
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Captain of The Squirrel Patrol
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident This is a grey squirrel. For once I feel confident in my identification. This one is munching seeds fallen from our bird feeder. They can be destructive, eating away at vegetables, insulation or taking up…
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Enduring Beauty
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident These two photographs are of the same crop of turkey tail fungus, the lighter color taken on November 12 and the darker six weeks later. I think they also qualify as turkey tail mushrooms. They…
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PEEC 2020 5K – RUN, HIKE, CRAWL
Registration $25 EARLY REGISTRATION by April 2 $30 REGISTRATION after April 2 $35 RACE DAY REGISTRATION Downloads 2020 Event Flyer Runner Registration Form Sponsorship Form SATURDAY, MAY 2, 20208:00am – 9:30am – Registration10:00am – Race begins Take a journey through the woods of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Our 5k runs through our main campus…
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To Hibernate, Perchance to Dream
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident This photograph is our short fieldstone wall, which I call the “Mouse Hotel.” Most of the year I see many mice in and out of the little crevices. Squirrels and chipmunks hide their lunches; toads…
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Forest Fear Itself
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident A mature shagbark hickory can grow to over 100 feet and live for 350 years. The bark of the mature tree will curl up, sometimes extravagantly. The first time I saw a large one, with…
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Nevermore
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident This photo was taken during last winter’s late storm that dumped over a foot of snow on our part of the forest, and knocked out electrical power for nine days. About an hour before the…
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