Breaking Through

Sea Turtle Breaking Through Swimming and pushing hard through the daily tightness, teasing oxygen from the ocean my loggerhead turtle is determined to gain mileage and not take forever to get safely ashore. She must be vigilant watch out for predators and escape from a sea lion to find a home on a sandy beach and look for a safe place to lay her eggs. She did not burrow like a clam on the bottom of the ocean. Instead, she smashes through the roaring blue-green waves. With her bright determined body, she is strong of heart, breaking through all setbacks, knowing time is running out. If she arrives on the sand she will haul herself up the beach at night and lay her fragile eggs. Contents Part One Our Community of Dairy Cows//1 Oak Tree Monarch//4 Black-Capped Chickadees in Madison//6 Hunger Drives Evolution//8 Japanese Cherry Tree-Sakura//10 Lucca Biodynamic//11 Wounds of War//13 It's Complicated//15 Landscape of Change//16 Beloved Adino//18 Milford Track//21 Butterflies Rock the Block//23 A Galaxy of Worlds, Boreal Conifer Forest//24 Columbia Quindio Wax Palm Trees//26 Watching Three Blue Leviathans//28 A Geyser Erupting//30 Deacon Grave's Native Wildflower Walk//32 Part Two The Fightback of the Kirkland Warbler//37 Black Birds Fly//38 Hiking Along to Acadia//40 Imperiled Rhythms of the Great Barrier Reef//42 The End of the Line//44 Snowball the Cockatoo Grooves//47 Family//49 Celestial Divination//51 Star Viewpoint//54 Starry Sky Connections//56 Moon Gazing//58 Hannah//59 Alyssa//61 Visit from my Grandson//63 Integrity and Dignity from Deep Within//64 Good Luck and Safe Crossing//66 White-Breasted Nuthatches//68 Our Orchard//69 Breaking Through//70 Lakewood Ranch-Another World