Upstream

 Mary Oliver, a resident poet of Providence, Rhode Island, wrote Upstream. This book is a series of essays about nature. Mary Oliver is a nature lover. Who else would study a spider in her web waiting for the day the egg sacs hatch? One day she observes a snapping turtle laying eggs. The next day she goes back to the spot and digs up the 20 eggs. To my surprise she puts ten eggs back in the nest and takes the other ten eggs home and whips up an omelet of turtle eggs. I was not expecting that. Some of the essays were about the writing of other writers such as Emerson, Poe and Whitman. I didn't find those essays as interesting as her own observations.