At this point in our summer the Sun’s energy has caused an abundance of wealth, not the kind you can spend at the store, rather one measured in tree growth,…
I find it too easy to start my morning on my computer. Granted I have a lovely view out the window, a view that always includes flowers and bees and…
A couple of people helped me remember how this old world can work, actually does most of the time. My neice, Emily, sang a song she wrote about how the…
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…
Still Learning To See 