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...

FLORID FLORA - (This season never ceases to amaze us - nor should it be any other way). The early Spring Ephemeral wildflowers -...

What an amazing spring it has been and like every season it is unique. Also, like most local springs, it seems as if this season takes...

Finally, the Spring of 2023 is becoming free to unfold. The vernal season is a notoriously fickle one in our part of the world and this...

Even though winter is still upon us, occasionally pummeling the southeast Catskills with icy nor’easters, or fierce arctic winds blowing...

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...