(Photo credit: Gordon Morrison) John is a naturalist best known for his Scratch Flat Chronicles, books that are meditations on a one acre tract of land near his home just West of Boston. Legends of the Common Stream is part of his Chronicles, and closely observes Beaver Brook from an isolated stream bank where John has spent his mornings for more than 25 years. Legends is an account of the natural science of the plants and animals of the stream and its floodplain, but also we