High Summer
I consider this time - between mid-July and mid-August - to be High Summer in the Southeast Catskills. It usually is the hottest part of...
GREEN RISING
Freakish May weather notwithstanding, there are no ifs, ands, or buts about the matter - Spring has Sprung in the valley of the Sawkill...
LIFE RETURNS
As Spring returns to the Catskills, life itself flows back into the land, much the same as the sap returns to the tree-trunk - in fits...
MARCH TO SPRING
We are now midway between the uber-darkness bitter cold of midwinter – the Low Tide of Life – here in the Northern Hemisphere – and the...
DEEP WINTER
A WILD RIDE INTO A FEBRUARY THAW I've written recently about what a "rollercoaster" of a winter it has been - up and down, warm and cold,...
LIGHT RETURNING
Yes, sunlight is noticeably on the increase now, by as much as an additional 5 minutes every day. By the end of the month we should have...
ROLLERCOASTER SKY
Cold arctic winds blow across the mountains, bringing their fierce reminder of Winter’s power, scattering brown leaves and making the...
SHADOWS LENGTHEN
Northwest winds sweep through the hills, bringing their cold message of winter, transporting snow from Lake Ontario all the way down here...
WINTERFALL
As the cold north winds whip little leaf-devils, sweeping dried leaves skittering into corners,they also brush aside our last vestiges of...
