Years of walks in an upstate New York wildlife management area

inspired two writer-photographers to create this volume of poems,

essays, and nature images. Alternately meditative and humorous,

spiritual, and earthy, seasonal and timeless, this book by Diane

Kavanaugh-Black and Carole Fults illustrates the growing friendship

between two people and between themselves and the natural world.

The woods and paths at Partridge Run Wilderness Management Area in

Berne, New York, are a container for their friendship, and a place to

wrestle with internal struggles.

Yes, this book is about walking in the woods but is not a primer on

hiking or plant identification, not a physical wellness manual or

gut-wrenching memoir. Instead, in a shared meditation the authors take on

various questions of our modern fragmented lives: How to slow the

hell down. How to be curious. How to watch when there seems nothing to see.

In the end, walking in the woods gives all of us lessons on how to

live wherever we are, how nature is in us and supports us while we

suffer and rejoice.

Join Carole and Diane as they encounter nature and report back on the

lush colors, funny conversations, a little high drama, internal

consternation, and revelations. You will not be disappointed.