WINTER COMES
Northwest winds sweep through the hills, bringing their cold message of winter, transporting snow from Lake Ontario all the way down here...
Like Embers Fading
2020 FADING COLORS As the fall colors of 2020 slowly dissipate, melting into the Catskills landscape, they gradually change into the more...
Prismatic Palette
I love to watch dust-motes floating in the clear, soft, forgiving light of Autumn, shining specks dancing. They drift over quieting...
THE GOLDEN SEASON
SUMMERFALL The summer light wanes, sending an ancient signal to all beings in the northern hemisphere that it is time for each one in...
RUBIES RULE!
It is truly a wonder to be able to watch my Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris)all season long, although it is primarily...
SUMMER SIMMER
WHY WAGHKONK? I should explain to the occasional reader why I call these missives Waghkonk Notes. I started writing these as the Comeau...
High Summer
I consider this time - between mid-July and mid-August - to be High Summer in the Southeast Catskills. It usually is the hottest part of...
MIDSUMMER MEMORY
SUMMER SIMMER SPRING It was an unusually warm spring, bringing with it hot weather we don't normally see here until late July or August....
GREEN RISING
Freakish May weather notwithstanding, there are no ifs, ands, or buts about the matter - Spring has Sprung in the valley of the Sawkill...
LIFE RETURNS
As Spring returns to the Catskills, life itself flows back into the land, much the same as the sap returns to the tree-trunk - in fits...
