
Fall Leaves
Fall has faded like the colors of the leaves as they change from the fresh, bright hues of the early part of the season into the somber...

FALLEN RAINBOW
Our Autumn continues to wind down, the leaves have colored and most have fallen. We’ve gone from the peak of the season - when not only...

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

ALMOST FALL
We are at the end of what was a glorious summer,having happily avoided drought and fires. Because we had no extended dry-spell the...

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...

MEADOWS MEMORY
INCREDIBLE RICHNESS OF SUMMER LIFE - As I've described in other high-summers, the richness of this time is so visceral, so intensely,...

SUDDEN SUMMER
The title of this piece describes this last week perfectly - it seems like we went from spring to SUMMER! in just a few days, with...

GREEN LIGHT
As the bright green tide of the new season slowly advances up the sides of Overlook, Spring returns to Waghkonk in all its glory. This is...

SPRING IN OUR STEP
As the days get longer and the sun moves higher in the sky the arctic jet-stream that brought forth our record cold temperatures retreats...

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