Finally Spring begins to unfold and this moon (interchangeable with “month”, but runs from full moon to full moon) is the epitome of the...

THE WORM MOON - Finally the increasingly-higher angle of the Sun’s rays will start to have an effect. Snow doesn’t last as long and ice...

Polar winds plunge over the southeast Catskills, freezing all before them and casting frosty whiteness about as they continue to bring...

(Excerpted from my soon-to-be-published “Waghkonk Notes - A Cycle of the Seasons in the Valley of the Sawkill”.) As the polar winds...

As our Earth spins on its journey around the Sun, this is the time that the northern hemisphere is tilted away from it, bringing winter....

LIKE EMBERS FADING - As the fall colors of 2023 slowly
dissipate, melting into the Catskills landscape, they gradually change into the...

As I write this, record rainfalls continue in our corner of the Catskills, streams almost instantaneously re-flooding because the earth...

SUMMERFALL The summer light wanes, sending an ancient signal to all beings in the northern hemisphere that it is time for each one in...

STEP RIGHT UP! - Step right up, folks, to Father Sky and Mother Earth’s Magical, Mystical, Midsummer Madness! See the Night-sky Shimmer...

Once again the Earth has cycled back to where its northern half (which happens to include us) is tilted towards the Sun, giving us our...