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October 08, 2020 - I thought this was a sharper image than it turned out to be, and I was inclined to let the event it captured wait for do...

June 10, 2020 - This is the first of what I think is a member of the Pyreferra problem-caterpillar clan: absolutely lurid, almost incand...

February 15, 2019 - There's a February tradition on my ridge: comb the woods and fields, to say nothing of the gardens, to try and find the...

October 08, 2018 - it certainly hasn't felt much like fall, what with mostly way warmer than usual temperatures and almost AC-requiring hig...

February 11, 2018 - When I was working at Yale just about every day, one of my favorite sights at this time of year was the university's col...

November 26, 2017 - In the weeks that I've been steadily recovering and getting my hiking legs back under me, deep autumn has staked its cla...

September 26, 2017 - Naturalists and gardeners alike often set their late-winter and early-spring calendars to sync with the first flowers of...

February 03, 2017 - In advance of one of my all-time favorite traditions—my oldest friends' party in honor of Groundhog Day—I was combing th...

December 22, 2016 - With the holidays fast approaching and the house nowhere near ready for a houseful of kids and grandkids, my outdoor tim...

December 21, 2016 - Witch Hazel, of course, is touted as the last flowering shrub of autumn, and since fall officially departed early this m...

October 13, 2016 - Well in advance of Halloween, the witches are out... but seeing them is hardly cause for alarm. Concern, perhaps, since...

October 21, 2015 - With the leaves beginning to fall in droves, I'm now gaining the ability to see things I've missed. Nests, of course—bot...

October 05, 2015 - Some of my best discoveries are made en route to the compost heap—I mean that literally, not figuratively—and so it was...

March 20, 2015 - In a break from a long-running tradition, the Westerly Morris Men, a local dance troupe, couldn't make the trek up Lante...

March 10, 2015 - The snow is still deep. I continue to need to use snowshoes to get to the compost pile. I've yet to swear off long under...