E. L. Tablers love affair with nature began at age four, catching and releasing crawdads in a creek just behind his Missouri home. Later, after visiting sequoias in California, he hitched across th...view moreE. L. Tablers love affair with nature began at age four, catching and releasing crawdads in a creek just behind his Missouri home. Later, after visiting sequoias in California, he hitched across the country, hiked along a river ravine in the Rockies, beheld Galveston smothered in wildflowers, and was seduced by Vermonts fall colors. During eleven years in the printing trade, he snatched hours to explore Midwestern forests, where he observed deer grazing, snapping turtles mating, and a school of carp playing a game of Chicken.
He has resided in Massachusetts for most of his life, where he worked in the human services field for twenty-five years. For ten of those years, he lived in a remote loft with a wood-burning stove for heat and kerosene lamps for light. Callers included deer, moose, woodchucks, wild turkey, porcupine, and bullfrogs. He considers himself an epicure of edible wild foods, particularly mushrooms.
Writing about nature has enabled him to more fully immerse himself in her.view less