
NEW SPRING part 2
The Lady has long since doffed her snowy mantle, exchanging it for her verdant Cloak of Life. As each day goes by, more and more...

NEW SPRING part 1
IT BEGINS As Spring returns to the Catskills, life itself flows back into the land, much the same as the sap returns to the tree-trunk -...

WINTER LEAVES
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,...

A MUTED RAINBOW
As the polar winds plunge south, driving summer into a faint memory, all of us - animal and plant - hunker down, waiting for warmth. Up...

WINTER WINDS
Northwest winds sweep through the hills, bringing their cold message of winter, transporting snow from Lake Ontario all the way down here...