Temperatures yesterday morning were in the low 40s, the first such cold we’ve had since early May. Clearly changes are coming, even if more slowly than the calendar might suggest.…
This morning, after long weeks of summer, is the first cool hint of what’s to come. Even so, I watch several hummingbirds on the nasturtium, fattening up for an impossible migration. And on…
Several days ago in this blog I mentioned Jewelweed as one of the harvesters of the summer sunlight. In places in my yard this gem grows six feet tall and so thickly…
Since early May, I’ve run our oil-hot water heater for 30 minutes. The rest of the time: our wall-mounted solar hot water heater. Below are the tank readings from two…
The sun these past few days has been such a gift. This time of year mornings here in the valley are nearly always foggy but once it burns off, we…
Over the past several years I’ve enjoyed visiting Millstone Quarries (Websterville, VT) in all seasons. Part of the Barre Town forest, this gem is home to several dozen old granite quarries and…
I’ve long enjoyed photographing water in all three of its physical states—liquid, solid and vapor—finding endless variations of what is there waiting to be seen. Last Spring I created a…
These mornings are often foggy, quite common in the Fall. The closeness of it feels like a cocoon, a place to slowly begin getting ready for the coming winter. But the…
Today marks the day in 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, followed three days later by another being dropped on Nagasaki. More than 130,000 people were killed,…
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