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A collection of 8 posts

Another Deluge

Last week, we drove through the Hudson River Valley, doing our best to dodge the final few punches of a storm that dropped twelve inches of rain on our destination in the Catskills. The Catskills, you may know, are the result of millions of years of sediment from the bottom

An Old Canoe

Where is the person who embarked with it on those waters? It must have been someone like me, who desired a hidden canoe to hop across nature’s boundary.

The Valedictorian

The Valedictorian

We chose it as our signature tree, as a centerpiece of the field—We voted it valedictorian, and class president.

Burn, Drag, Split, Stack

Burn, Drag, Split, Stack

A pile of wood—branches and brush, or full-grown timber—imposes its presence. It can stop a truck.

Caught Flat-footed

Caught Flat-footed

The fox was a gift of creation. I hollered, “No! No! No!”

emerald ash borer

To Explain

The very branches where fathers courted mothers, and later supervised the first flight of youngsters, will be gone.

Bare Trees

Nature...does not usually confront us with the piled-up carcasses of once living things—not, at least, in the normal course of business.

Photo by Behnam Norouzi

August

These are the sultry days of deep summer.