OUR STORY SO FAR...

Henry (a bear) is a naturalist, writer, inventor, and caretaker of the woods. He keeps a journal of daily life. To some, he can seem curmudgeonly, but he has a kind heart and a secret fondness for Lydia.

Lydia (a fox) is an artist who lives in a houseboat/studio at the edge of the woods on Fairhaven Bay. She loves to paint plein air but struggles to get her subjects to hold still while she paints.

Wally (a curious bird) is an online blogger, motivational speaker, and technology nerd. As owner of the largest tract of the undeveloped woods, he writes about nature but views the bug-infested woods as woodlot rather than wildness.

Auk (the orphaned child of a Great Auk mother and a Dodo) is adopted by Henry. Auk is obsessed with learning to fly so as to avoid the fate of his parents. He is savy in the most innocent way possible.

Eddie (a badger) is the son of Milo Flat, owner of Flat Earth Construction and Landscaping. He has imbibed his father's dubious wisdom and likens throwing rocks to moving the earth, one stone at a time. Auk is his best friend.

I launched Lost Woods online in 2023 to give you an independent daily dose of the natural world so vital to restoring our collective sense of humor and well-being. I hope the following sequence of early strips will help you understand how these characters and their story came together to reflect, however obliquely, the prescient wisdom of the quintessential American thinker, Henry David Thoreau.

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