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Michael Wills: The Nature-Walking, Grandkid-Teaching, History-Weaving, Poetry-Savoring Sage of the Finger Lakes

A retired dietitian with a scholar’s brain and a poet’s soul, Michael roams from Monument Valley mesas to mossy trails in Treman Gorge, camera in hand and story on his lips. He’s a curator of wildflowers and wild thoughts, blending memoir with mythology, ecology with emotion. He’s the k

ind of grandfather who turns a walk in the woods into a masterclass in wonder. A lifelong learner, he dances between literary critique and fungal networks with equal grace — quoting Le Guin one moment, marveling at a Queen Anne’s Lace the next. Michael writes like he hikes: with purpose, reflection, and just enough detour to discover something beautiful.

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09/04/2026

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A garden, migrating geese, an unexpected balloon and flowers opening after dark remind me that gratitude begins by noticing the extraordinary within ordinary life.

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07/21/2026

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Discover scarlet bee balm and eastern bottlebrush grass along Robert H. Treman’s South Rim Trail, where native plants reveal Finger Lakes ecology, history, and culture.

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07/07/2026

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The locations are O.D. Von Engeln preserve and Robert H. Treman Park of Tompkins County, Finger Lakes Region of New York State.

White anemones at Malloryville and Treman reveal thimbleweed and Canada anemone through intimate portraits, shifting light, woodland edges, and quiet transformation from bloom to seed.

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07/01/2026

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I have known rocks as obstacles, as shelter, and finally as memory. These ten photographs gather these moods: cliff, wall, ruin, creek-bed, boulder, altar, shadow screen, old page. They are not ine…

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06/23/2026

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A June meditation at Houston Pond in Cornell’s F.R. Newman Arboretum, where water lilies, turtles, cattails, and summer light gather into green silence.

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06/18/2026

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The purple-flowered raspberry is a native shrub that confounds expectations, combining rose-like blossoms, maple-shaped leaves, edible fruit, and thornless stems into one of eastern North America& #…

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06/10/2026

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Beneath the green fields of Inis Mór lies a remarkable story of persistence as generations of islanders created fertile soil atop bare limestone.

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06/04/2026

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A selection of photographs from our January 2019 visit to McKee Botanical Gardens, Vero Beach, Indian River County, Florida

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05/26/2026

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Legacy flowering quince on Ithaca’s West Hill blooms in coral-pink spring light, joining family memory, Asian origins, garden ecology, and enduring beauty.

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