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By Cora Saddler <\/strong><\/p>\n

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October 15, 2022
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Home is a walk through the woods. It\u2019s mud-caked boots off the beaten path and overcast October afternoons with slivers of sunlight seeping through the dusky and dim blanket of cloud coverage. It gets dark early here, nothing like where I\u2019m from, and yet, this feeling of homesickness gets caught among the birch tree branches and finely pointed spruce needles. Or maybe they\u2019re fir? Perhaps pine? I was never good at remembering which was which, but I don\u2019t need to know their names to appreciate the quiet beauty nestled all along the wooded path.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I first became interested in nature close-ups a year ago and have since sought out the <\/span>beauty embodied in the simplistic and small. On this walk, I found joy hiding in the patterns of leaves. At one point, the sky opened up and for a moment, and the sunlight turned the yellow tamaracks to gold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Little moments like these illuminate the richness of our world and the pleasures found <\/span>within\u2014the lessons of patience and reflection that ten seconds under the tamarack tree can teach\u2014if only we take the time to look at it all through a new lens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Home is a walk through the woods, and I\u2019ve done a great deal of learning inside of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It gets dark early here, nothing like where I\u2019m from, and yet, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2031,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spire-2023-issue"],"yoast_head":"\nBog Walk - The Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability - 91爆料<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/spire\/2023\/04\/21\/saddler\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bog Walk - The Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability - 91爆料\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Cora Saddler   Artist Statement October 15, 2022 3:45 p.m. Home is a walk through the woods. 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