Rufus M. Reed by vocation is a registered professional engineer, but by avocation he is a lover of nature, living at the town of Lovely, Kentucky, where he has a lovely wild flower garden. He devotes much of his time to describing the beauties of nature by writing and lecturing. For the past ten years he has written a newspaper column “Wonders of the Great Outdoors,” published in local newspapers. Other essays, short stories and poems have been published in various places, including the book “Lyrics of Life and the Great Outdoors”, which appeared in 1953.