A collection of essays focusing on landscape and wildlife in and around Surry ME over several decades. All written evocatively, and semi-independently, without a connecting story arc; mentions of the author’s family, for example, have her married or divorced, with children toddlers or teenagers or grown and gone. The essays that stand out are about birds: turkeys, loons, cormorants, a raven whose flesh has grown over a strand of fishing line, a hawk with an injured eye. The author was licensed to rehabilitate wild birds; she is observant and compassionate.