If I’d never seen blue sky, rippling water and reflections of light, I’d probably not believe someone who told me about them. “No way! That sounds impossible!” Maybe so, but…
Millstone Trails in Graniteville, Vermont, is a remarkable group of old granite quarries—from swimming pool size to a lake that is hundreds of feet deep—and literal mountains of “grout” (small…
Good news: lots more monarchs and monarch caterpillars around Central Vermont this year. What a thrill to see the chewed leaves of milkweed everywhere and plants loaded with frass…
Hummingbirds, of course, are simply an impossibility. Not just their abilities to fly and their coloration but also their tongue, something that wraps around the inside of their skull it…
Rarely am I photographing water without having my mind blown. Today, spending a couple hours on the North Branch at the Cascades, was no exception. Intense sunshine illuminates the stream…
One of the great delights of seeing flowers and leaves is the fact that light can be both reflected by their surfaces while also being transmitted through them. The balance…
Flowers and plants are such gifts. Years ago I swore I’d stop mowing a lawn. Now the entire yard is filled with flowers and wild areas where whatever wants to…
It is easy, when I’m absorbed in the day-to-day details of life, to walk along looking at the ground, actually not seeing much of anything at all. Yesterday the blue…
If I’m honest, I must admit to having allowed myself to be held hostage emotionally since November 2016. I know I’m not alone in feeling depressed about the conditions we…
The winds last week across much of the Midwest and Northeast were remarkable, both for their speed and their duration over three days. A new February record was set on…
