What will June bring? UPDATE: Pool orbs 2 hours ago In Japan,
they call it shinrin-yoku – literally, “forest bathing.” Here,
we might just call it a walk in the park. Either way, people
around the world have an intuitive sense of the restorative
power of natural environments. The question is: Why? Scientists
have advanced a wide range of theories about the specific
physical and mental benefits nature can provide, ranging from
clean air and lack of noise pollution to the apparent immune-
boosting effects of a fine mist of “wood essential oils.” But
the most powerful benefits, a new study suggests, may result
from the way trees and birds and sunsets gently tug – but never
grab – at our attention. An earlier visitor: Nearly 150 years
ago, photographer O'Sullivan came across this evidence of a
visitor to the West that preceded his own expedition by another
150 years - A Spanish inscription from 1726. This close-up view
of the inscription carved in the sandstone at Inscription Rock
(El Morro National Monument), New