Noticing

Beyond the summer pleasures of the outermost end of Cape Cod is a long quiet season that fewer know. Wellfleet naturalist and artist Kai Potter takes readers deep into the woods, heaths, and dunes of this place we thought we knew so well and shows us things we hadn’t noticed before.

Full of memories of mossy paths and winter light, these essays reveal a surprising truth: the closer you look, the bigger the world gets. Nature does not narrow when you focus in — it expands. You don’t run out of questions. And few things stay ordinary for long.

Praise from Robert Finch: “Cape Cod has long provided fertile ground for writers, but especially for observers of the natural world.… Until recently, I had wondered if this rich tradition had run its course. But when I discovered Kai Potter’s essays in the Provincetown Independent, I realized that the tradition was alive and well.”

This debut book from Provincetown Independent Press is a collection of essays originally published in the pages of the Provincetown Independent.  137 pages. $24.95.