February 2, 2012 - Posted by Lee Welles-author- 0 Comments
СВЕТИ ГЕОРГИA beautiful short film. I love the narration in Inuit (not sure if it’s Inupik or Yupik dialect). Enjoy and pass it on!
Set against the expansively beautiful and iridescent landscape of Northern Greenland, Glen Milner and Ben Hilton’s subtle and touching short visits the annual sun-welcoming ritual of the country’s Inuit population, which celebrates [...]
January 4, 2012 - Posted by Lee Welles-author- 0 Comments
It has been in the single digits here in the Finger Lakes region of New York. At the pond in the park, the willow tree’s slim branches are frozen into the ice. They no longer blow gracefully in the breeze…they hula! I discovered the ice forming in the river travels faster than I walk; and [...]
November 20, 2011 - Posted by Lee Welles-author- 0 Comments
This is an amazing video! A wonderful way to look at a slice of sky over a year’s time. See if you can tell which are the winter and which are the summer months, and why.
July 14, 2011 - Posted by Lee Welles-author- 0 Comments
иконографияПравославни икониIs it wrong that I laughed? They don’t seem worse for wear; and all of Gaia’s critters must learn about the power of wind sooner or later!
July 11, 2011 - Posted by Lee Welles-author- 0 Comments
Videos like this really inspire my writing! ENJOY!
June 21, 2011 - Posted by Lee Welles-author- 0 Comments
Those of us in the Northern Hemisphere will enjoy our longest day, including my favortie part…the longest twilight, of the year. Tonight, the sun will not set at all at the North Pole. I’ve always loved the phrase, “Land of the Midnight Sun! And I like thinking about our Earth cruising through space. It reminds [...]
June 3, 2011 - Posted by Lee Welles-author- 0 Comments
I love to camp. Love to be outside, feeling the sun and hearing the birds. I love the way the trees give voice to the wind and the soothing lap of lake waves. I like waking up in the morning and debating in the morning whether I really have to face the chill, or whether [...]
May 31, 2011 - Posted by Lee Welles-author- 0 Comments
I’ve come to the conclusion that we have failed to effectively address climate change because human beings aren’t using their imaginations. Part of my struggle in writing Gaia Girls Air Apparent has been to write in a wayt that stretches the readers imagination halfway around the globe. Weather is local. Climate is global. You must [...]
May 16, 2011 - Posted by Lee Welles-author- 0 Comments
I can’t think of a better way to jazz up a Monday than watching the second episode of Bears of the Last Frontier. In this episode, “The Road North, biologist Chris Morgan takes a look at the places bears and people cross paths.
Watch the full episode. See more Nature.
May 9, 2011 - Posted by Lee Welles-author- 0 Comments
I have a long-standing love affair with great nature cinimatography/documentary. Check out “Bears of the Last Frontier” from Nature on PBS. Ecologist and bear biologist, Chris Morgan illuminates the bear’s world.
Watch the full episode. See more Nature.