

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...































