Here in Vermont the inevitable annual changes in our natural world are well underway. The sun, of course, drives them all with less solar energy reaching us due to shorter…
I’ve long appreciated how complex life is. One has only to consider the Monarch butterfly’s life—not just complex but impossibly so. Scientists have unravelled nearly all of that story but…
The sun shown brightly yesterday and again today for the first time in what seems like weeks. It is amazing how my whole attitude about life improves seeing the shadows…
As I change the calendar page, it is clear we are in the midst of the transitions I’ve grown used to seeing happen. The long, beautiful light and shadows of…
I’ve enjoyed digging back into my early digital archives to again see photographs I made on two trips to Iqaluit, Nunavut in the late fall of 2002 and 2003. The…
I can say it is the morning valley fog or intermittent rain that keeps me at this keyboard, barely looking out the window, but the truth is I have, of…
The sun-powered rush to grow, bloom and reproduce is under full steam now with wave after wave of plants hoisting their flowers up to the wind and/or the pollinators and…
If I am honest, I must confess to occasionally casting an envious eye on those neatly planned and well mulched gardens. Sissinghurst comes to mind! Continuing my honest comments, however,…
The weather yesterday would have had a forecaster jumping around, switching hats and re-writing the script at least a hundred times: cold, warm, rain, sun…everything but snow flurries and, importantly,…
When summer arrives and the garden becomes a wall of greenness, many creatures—large and small, pollinator and predator, flying and crawling, welcomed and not—countless variations of life, all come along…
Still Learning To See 