Every year I lose plants in my garden. Clearly I have too many and have never had the kind of highly organized planting that would show a gap. Often these…
For years I have refused to “tidy up” my flower gardens in the fall, preferring instead to have a “winter garden” of stems, plumes, seed pods and stalks—all of which…
Friends from around the world, clearly things are changing very rapidly with many unknowns and lots of fears. One thing I know can always be healthy is a walk, especially…
As has become obvious these past few months, little things—like a virus—can have a large impact on parts of the world. The Leucojum flower, pictured above, has long been one…
I seem to be bottled up of late. I’ve enjoyed times behind my camera but struggled with sharing what I’ve seen. A fellow artist friend challenged me yesterday to just…
…but not photographs of last summer’s best! As temperatures hover around 0F this week, it seems like a good time to enjoy a few more flower photographs! Maybe some pink…
More amazing flowers from among the 5000 photographs I made last year. I’m fortunate to have many of these growing right outside the back door in my “no-mow” lawn! Enjoy.…
Many thanks to all who came to the Montpelier Alive Art Walk last night to see a selection of my work from the past year. It was such a delight…
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…