Also along the way to the Creek we find the following: a field of verbena, a kind musician found playing guitar on his back porch, a fire hydrant that truly will never be used, a father and son repairing their section of the road, plenty enough March flowers to make for a gorgeous way into this little canyon, and tiny ants burrowing nests into a hard-packed drive way.
And along the way to any good thing fall an unknown number of other good things. Such is the unavoidable tragedy of life lived in a world that remains, as Stephen Crane wrote, "flatly indifferent." The same world is a beautiful one, no doubt, but what it pays in beauty it demands from other beautiful things.
And so it is with life at the Creek. We try to build a small place to live where we can be close to the natural world and encourage its rightful existence, but along the way we will inevitably snuff out about as much as we hope to save. That's what happens along the way to a good goal. The ruining of a canyon wren's nest is only the latest example.
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| Juan |
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| Walter and his son Kevin. |
And along the way to any good thing fall an unknown number of other good things. Such is the unavoidable tragedy of life lived in a world that remains, as Stephen Crane wrote, "flatly indifferent." The same world is a beautiful one, no doubt, but what it pays in beauty it demands from other beautiful things.
And so it is with life at the Creek. We try to build a small place to live where we can be close to the natural world and encourage its rightful existence, but along the way we will inevitably snuff out about as much as we hope to save. That's what happens along the way to a good goal. The ruining of a canyon wren's nest is only the latest example.
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| Canyon wren unmade |
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| Nest minus one egg that fell to the floor |
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| Materials for nest: insulation, bark, twigs, wood shavings, leaves, roofing nails, and sheet rock screws |
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| The nest was hidden up in that right can light. |
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