WINTERSPRING (part 1)
Snow-devils spin their spritely dervish-dance, winds rage across the suddenly-winter landscape,snow and sleet pelt the window-panes,...
A DESERT OF SNOW AND ICE
As arctic winds roar south over Manitou Mountain, coursing down through frozen mountainside quarries, bending low Milkweed and Monarda,...
WOLF MOON
The cycle of the seasons moves inexorably onward as real, deep winter finally comes to the Southeast Catskills. The first half of this...
WATERSHED OF LIGHT AND LIFE
Northwest winds sweep through the hills, bringing their cold message of winter, transporting snow from Lake Ontario all the way down here...
AUTUMNAL MAGIC
Autumn slowly makes its way down the rainbow-tinged slopes of Overlook, overlooking the Milkweed seed-bearing fields of Waghkonk, already...
RAINFOREST FALL
As I write this, record rainfalls continue in our corner of the Catskills, streams almost instantaneously re-flooding because the earth...
WHEN THISTLEDOWN FLIES
DROUGHT TO DRENCH What a truly amazing summer it has been - a Summer of Superlatives. It started out unremarkable - June was just...
SPIRIT OF SPRING
Some of my Spring observations, of this world and the Other - Ajuga, American Beeches, American Crows, American Hornbeam American...
SPIRIT OF SPRING
Some of my Spring observations, of this world and the Other - Ajuga, American Beeches, American Crows, American Hornbeam American...
HALFWAY THERE
“Halfway There” because we are now midway between the uber-darkness bitter cold of midwinter – the Low Tide of Life – here in the...
