The cycle of life renews as ponds, bogs, frogs, moths, and flowers flutter awake, along  with the peregrinations of mating birds in the brilliant rush of an East-coast spring.  Observation of these renewals  in our natural environment are woven together  with little-known facts and  occasional commentary of  naturalists to give us an armchair glimpse of nature as man’s enchanter –– with a  a tornado  to remind us of nature’s awesome power.