Take an Autumn Hike Right Now.

Click on the movie below to preview the beautiful art in Count Down to Fall, a new book I just listed in my online catalog.

Price on Dragonflies DVD drops $5

It's not too often we have news like this, but our latest shipment of this great DVD of Common Dragonflies and Damselflies of Eastern North America came in listed at $19.95. That means our normal discount price dropped to $17.95! What a deal! You can find it in our online catalog here.

Botany of Desire

Have you read _The Botany of Desire_ by Michael Pollan? Let us know what you think here. If you haven't, you might enjoy reading how he takes four plants and talks about them from their perspective, examining how particular, and surprising, characteristics of them caused humans to do their bidding, spreading them around the world.
Find it on my online catalog here.

Salt Marsh Safari

We were able to get a few days off and visit Ocean City, NJ last week for a wonderful time! You can check out our photo album at http://picasaweb.google.com/renewcomer/2009OceanCityNJ#. A good number of the photos are of a great tour through the salt marsh near Cape May with folks we got to know at this year's ANJEE conference. Captain Ginny said come down some time, so we did. We enjoyed over two hours with Captain Ed and crew piloting us around visiting Osprey, lots and lots of gulls, crabs, and all kinds of wildlife. Check them out at www.skimmer.com.
That's Jolene in the middle of the picture in the hat and binoculars.

Jeff's Children and Nature Blog

Jeff Hoagland is a good friend even though our contact is limited to once or twice a year at Environmental Education conferences. You may have met him if you go to PAEE or ANJEE events. If you did and got to talking you know that he is thoughtful and thought-provoking. Long-time Education Director of Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Association, Jeff now has a blog on "sharing the joy and wonder of nature with children" at http://www.packetinsider.com/blog/kids_nature/. Check it out. Like me, you'll be able to enjoy conversations with Jeff more than twice a year and benefit from his own overwhelming joy and wonder of nature.

2009 ANJEE

We're on the road again with our annual visit to Princeton, NJ for the Association for New Jersey Environmental Education conference. Having a great time as usual catching up with friends and being inspired by the stories of what they're doing. This is our first bookselling since last Spring, so it felt a little bit like a rebirth. More to follow...

Sustainable Living Resources

Check out www.nwei.org the Northwest Earth Institute for some great resources on Sustainability, Global Warming and other HOT (sorry, had to say that) topics. I'm going to take a look at getting some folks together for a discussion course or so. Why don't you check it out.