This time of year the Vermont hillsides are mostly bare of leaves. I find the leaves that are left, perhaps because they are the few remaining, to be inordinately beautiful,…
November can be cold, gray and trying for many. Personally I love seeing the changes coming as we move headlong into winter. And in less than a month—already—the days will…
I am of that age where many of the memories of our son and daughter as young kids are, honestly, fading. That’s okay because the many memories still I still…
Even on days like today, raining and cold, I’m grateful to be alive to see the beauty around everywhere. Beauty? Yes, most of the stunning foliage is gone—though the bare…
The mountainsides are mostly bare of leaves. The hills much more “quiet” than a week ago. It is astonishing how fast it happens, when it does, leaving me in awe…
The leaves are mostly down now, after a long night of heavy rain. The past few weeks of fall foliage here in Vermont have been glorious. Still to come are…
Some years the foliage is just not as dramatically colorful as others (not the case this year!), and some years the water is too low or too high, and the…
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,…
A few inches of snow had been predicted, with rain no less, and we ended up instead with over a foot of gorgeous snow that has continued to stick to…
Today we honor the longest night—and for those not under cloudy skies a marvellous sighting of the conjunction of planets Saturn and Jupiter. But the days, even if short, are…
Still Learning To See 