summer simmer
STEP RIGHT UP! - Step right up, folks, to Father Sky and Mother Earth’s Magical, Mystical, Midsummer Madness! See the Night-sky Shimmer...
HIGH SUMMER LIFE-STORM,
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...
Endless June
FLORID FLORA - (This season never ceases to amaze us - nor should it be any other way). The early Spring Ephemeral wildflowers -...
GREEN LIGHt
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...
SPRING IN OUR STEP
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...
MARCH TO SPRING
Even though winter is still upon us, occasionally pummeling the southeast Catskills with icy nor’easters, or fierce arctic winds blowing...
WINTER GREEN (part 2),
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...
WINTER GREEN(part 1)
As the polar winds plunge south, driving summer into a faint memory, all of us - animal and plant - hunker down, waiting for warmth. We...
ROLLERCOASTER SKY(part 2)
The cycle of the seasons moves inexorably onward as real, deep winter finally comes to the Southeast Catskills. Now that we’re a few...
ROLLERCOASTER SKY(part 1)
Cold arctic winds blow across the mountains, bringing their fierce reminder of Winter’s power, scattering brown leaves and making the...
