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...
ROLLERCOASTER JOURNEY
The title says it all! Indeed, the winter of 2017-18 will be remembered for extraordinary swings in temperature and in snowfall, from...
Darkness Rules
SHADOWS LENGTHEN, DARKNESS RULES As the arctic winds race down from the ice-cap, having swept across frozen tundra where Caribou hunker...
LIKE EMBERS FADING
FADING COLOR As the fall colors of 2017 slowly dissipate, melting into the Catskills landscape, they gradually change into the more...
SUMMERFALL
DOG-DAYS OF - FALL? We are at the end of what was a glorious summer in the Catskills, having happily avoided drought, fires and flood (if...
LATE SUMMER LIFESTORM
WHY WAGHKONK? I should explain to the occasional reader why I call these missives Waghkonk Notes. I started writing these as the Comeau...
