Finally, we are starting to green up here in Waghkonk, brightly verdant leaves unfolding from shrub and tree. Another color not usually...

Now that winter winds are no longer whipping down our mountain slopes, and the icy snows are melting fast, the green carpet of life can...

Snow-devils spin their spritely dervish-dance, winds rage across the suddenly-winter landscape,snow and sleet pelt the window-panes,...

As arctic winds roar south over Manitou Mountain, coursing down through frozen mountainside quarries, bending low Milkweed and Monarda,...

The cycle of the seasons moves inexorably onward as real, deep winter finally comes to the Southeast Catskills. The first half of this...

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

Autumn slowly makes its way down the rainbow-tinged slopes of Overlook, overlooking the Milkweed seed-bearing fields of Waghkonk, already...

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

DROUGHT TO DRENCH What a truly amazing summer it has been - a Summer of Superlatives. It started out unremarkable - June was just...

Some of my Spring observations, of this world and the Other - Ajuga, American Beeches, American Crows, American Hornbeam American...