Table of Contents
- Foreward by Lee Webb
- Introduction
- Lord, How Do I Know Thee?
- Map
- Preface by Robert Michael Pyle
- Brief Natural History of the Oregon Siskiyous
- Beside the Creek
- Fairy Bells on the Winter Air (January 15, 1969)
- Bees and Cherry Blossoms (April 25, 1969)
- Thirty Days Hath September (September 1, 1972)
- A Rejoicing of Robins (December 26, 1978)
- The Tea Party Beside the Creek (July 14, 1979)
- Sandbar Willows (July 14, 1979)
- The Heron (August 6, 1979)
- A Surprising Visitor (August 8, 1979)
- Reflections (August 15, 1979)
- Dead Trees (September 19, 1979)
- Cardinal Flowers and a Rufous Hummer (September 1, 1979)
- Killdeer (September 22, 1979)
- Last Visit (December 31, 1979)
- May, and the Return of the Birds (May 22, 1980)
- Wild Rose Blossoms (June 17, 1980)
- Loveliest Month Beside the Creek (June 26, 1980)
- Case of the Agitated Sandpiper (June 27, 1980)
- The Royal Visitor (August 21, 1980)
- First Day of Autumn (September 22, 1980)
- Drought, Logging, and Development (1993)
- The River and Hellgate
- First Day at Hellgate (October 17, 1966)
- Plants of Hellgate Canyon (October 31, 1966)
- Spring Has Come to Hellgate! (December 1, 1966)
- First Butterfly in the Canyon (March 8, 1967)
- The Merganser and Her Babies (May 24, 1967)
- Those Clowns the Tiger Beetles (October 12, 1967)
- Day to Climb a Mountain (November 27, 1967)
- The Merganser Babies and How They Grew! (December 9, 1967)
- Hellgate and High Water (February 23, 1968)
- Last Day of Spring (June 20, 1968)
- The "Bee Wolf" (June 29, 1969)
- Silent Canyon (July 13, 1968)
- Wild Geese Calling--Calling (October 16, 1968)
- The Odynerus Nest at Hellgate Canyon (May 1, 1969)
- Where the Boys Are (May 2, 1969)
- "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (March 31, 1970)
- Mud Daubers Beside the River (September 9, 11, 1970)
- Cicindela's Larva (June 18, 1971)
- Day of the Butterflies (June 19, 1971)
- Big Philanthus Is Bembix (August 19, 24, 26, 1971)
- Autumn Comes to the Milkweed (September 28, 1972)
- Farewell September (September 30, 1972)
- Leaf-cutting Bee of the Serpentine (May 16, 1973)
- The Leaf-cutter's Work is Done (June 2, 1973)
- Twilight and the River (Spril 5, 1983)
- Hellgate--Twenty-seven Years Later (1993)
- Chrome Ridge and Freeland Mountain
- Home Again--Almost! (April 28, 1974)
- Trees of Chrome Ridge (July 10, 1980)
- Bolander's Lily (August 25, 1980)
- Freeland Mountain and the Abandoned Lookout (September 15, 1980)
- World of the Snow (January 29, 1981)
- Snow on Freeland Mountain (February 4, 1981)
- The Arabis of Freeland Mountain (May 1, 1981)
- Lost Canyon (July 9, 1981)
- The Cobra Lilies of Lost Canyon (July 1981)
- Fern Canyon (July 30, 1981)
- Spring Comes to Freeland Mountain (May 26, 1982)
- The Sleeping Bear (June 23, 1982)
- The Old Fritillary (September 30, 1982)
- Day of the Fritillaries (September 21, 1983)
- Ragged Wings and Faded Glory (October 5, 1983)
- Lunch with the Cobra Lilies (April 15, 1985)
- November Pool--And a Brand New Butterfly (November 2, 1985)
- Discovery of the Mariposa Copper Butterfly (1984-1986)
- The Mariposa Copper of Mud Springs (August 13. 1984)
- Day of Discovery (September 17, 1984)
- The Striped Caterpillars (August 4, 1985)
- New Discoveries at Mud Springs (May 14, 1986)
- Mud Springs and Good Companions (June 2, 1986)
- Chrome Ridge and Freeland Mountain (1993)
- Briggs Valley and Horse Creek
- The Happy Wanderers (October 27, 1976)
- The Little Golden-eye (November 2, 1977)
- The Little Golden-eye--Epilogue (November 7, 1977)
- Our Green and Gold Day (April 1978)
- Horse Creek and the Spirit of the Siskiyous (January 7, 1980)
- The Ancient Jeffrey Pine (February 2, 1981)
- "Some Days are Diamonds" (October 18. 1981)
- "The Good Grey Rain" (December 2, 1981)
- The Wasp Watcher (August 17, 1982)
- All the Friends of Summer (October 11, 1982)
- Last of Summer's Butterflies (November 2, 1982)
- Memories of the Little Golden-eyed Duck (November 5, 1982)
- Stars in a Fallen Galaxy (February 1, 1983)
- A Slight Bit of Excitement (August 22, 1982)
- Of Snow and "Lowland Candle Flames" (March 22, 1984)
- Cemetery Hill (March 30, 1984)
- Green Mansions (May 13, 1984)
- Butterfly Bend (September 19, 1984)
- Mysterious Little Anthidium Placitum (August 2, 1985)
- A Bouquet of Butterflies (April 7, 1986)
- Dance of the Blue Grouse (December 16, 1986)
- Magic of Moonlight (February 9, 1989)
- The Wanderer Returns (1993)
- Bigelow Lakes and Mount Elijah
- A High Mountain Meadow and Memories (October 4, 1973)
- Farewell to the Meadow (October 17, 1973)
- Wind of the Ridge (October 18, 1973)
- Snow on the Meadow (October 18.1973)
- "Oh Suns and Skies and Clouds of June" (June 17, 1974)
- July and a Melting Snow Bank (July 2, 1974)
- Journey into April (July 15, 1974)
- Blue Penstemons and Mount Elijah (July 24, 1974)
- Summer Comes to the Meadow (August 10, 1974)
- Journey into Winter (Prologue) (October 30, 1974)
- Of Snow and the Sun of July (July 10, 1975)
- The Little Hidden Pond (July 23, 1975)
- The Impossible! (December 9, 1975)
- Fog in the Meadow (July 8, 1976)
- The Black-and-White Crane Flies (July 22, 1976)
- Three's Company (September 20, 1977)
- August Lies Across the Meadow (August 16, 1977)
- Lake Mountain--South Peak (August 31, 1977)
- Lake Mountain--North Peak (September 10, 1977)
- The Red and Silver Helicopter (June 19, 1978)
- Heather on Lake Mountain (July 11, 1979)
- End of the Trail (November 28, 1978)
- Goodbye, Lake Mountain (June 11, 1979)
- Bigelow Lakes Revisited(1993)
- Epilogue: Journey into Memory