As we here in the North continue to tilt toward the sun, greenness happens! If you’ve been outside this week, you’ll know how quickly it is happening. If you’ve not…
My only regret about this post is that I cannot include the heavenly scent these blossoms have. Imagine! Of course we can enjoy the equally beautiful sight they are. Hopefully…
Spring has been long and lovely coming this year and luxuriously slow in its progress. Even I complained once or twice about how cold and rainy it has been, but I’ve…
…I am still struggling with what’s next. Partly it is the continuing overwhelming situation of the world and partly it is the age-old question every artist faces: what’s next? A…
Rivers frozen hard under deep snow roared to life, and all over Central Vermont last week steam could be seen rising from sugar houses as the first of the new…
Tree buds of all kinds: mind-boggling to watch them unfold and impossible to believe all that life formed inside them to begin with.
This cool Spring has slowed down the growth of many plants and kept those that have bloomed flowering longer. The early Tulips are just coming on and are lovely. I…
Jim Harrison, a poet who recently died, says in his poem “Horses” “In truth each day is a universe in which we are tangled in the light of stars.” I’m…
A light frost last night. Perhaps the last of this slow Spring? It seems that everything is almost instantly green or in flower, as if I’ve just woken from sleep.…
When all here on Earth seems such a mess, I often look to the heavens for a sense of what is really real. Certainly long after I am gone and,…