By Chioma Lewis
When Tom Springer became interested in stargazing, he started walking down the road where he lives in Three Rivers, Michigan, to watch the stars.
He realized a telescope provided him with a limited perspective.
“All that a telescope does is focus on something small and narrow,” he said.
To find something as big as a constellation, you need a broader perspective. And Springer found one when he came across a sycamore tree with branches like a goal post. It is the tree pictured on the cover of his new book, “The Star in the Sycamore: Discovering Nature’s Hidden Virtues in the Wild Nearby” (Mission Point Press, $17.95). It’s available from Horizon Books in Traverse City, Michigan, and Amazon.