A stunning morning with 3″ of powdery, new snow and the air cold enough with a light breeze to have some of it fall and show up like diamond dust.…
This time of year can be a challenge, waiting for the “real ” spring to come forth. This is especially true after returning to cold weather from warm North Carolina.…
I remember the first Spring I began to see wild flowers. We lived a short walk from a maple-beech woods with a profusion of blooms beginning even as the snow…
Clear night last night with a nearly full moon and this morning the ground was covered with frost. But the sun is so obviously a spring one, bright against the…
It has not been especially warm here in North Carolina this week but it is warmer than Vermont! The trees and a few wildflowers are the best indicators that spring…
I don’t mean to appear “green greedy.” The dew photographs yesterday whetted my appetite for more green—soft, warm green. I saw a lot of green today—mosses, lichens, wintered-over ferns, tree…
Enough of ice, at least for a bit. Yesterday by the river my eye was drawn to a small stand of Red Osier (Cornus sericea) which seemed brighter. Perhaps it…