SENSUAL SUMMER - I sit here on a perfect, warm, very late July evening, windows and doors wide open, trying to encourage any possible...

WHAT MAKES HIGH SUMMER? LIGHT - Maybe it is the all-penetrating light which comes at you from every direction. It surrounds you,...

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

SPRINGING TO SUMMER (part 2) Waghkonk Notes June 15, 2022 SUMMER SIMMER - Summer came suddenly after the relatively cool, wet Spring,...

BRIGHT TO DARK - By the time you read this our forests will have transformed from the bright green, high-nitrogen-infused, light green of...

The Lady has doffed her snowy mantle, exchanging it for her verdant Cloak of Life. As each day goes by, more and more bright-green leaves...

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,...

A WILD RIDE INTO A FEBRUARY THAW - What a "rollercoaster" of a winter it has been - up and down, warm and cold, etc. - but I have to say...

FAUNA AND FLORA Now the game is on for real - the game of life and death. The Ground Cedar and other lycopodiums are mostly covered by...