09
Feb
Winter Distemper
I think the deep freeze we have been experiencing is making everything irritable
3 min read
winter
31
Jan
Frozen
Irony is at work in global warming, tempting bluebirds north for the winter to be sandbagged by frigid temperatures.
4 min read
27
Jan
Report from the Outside World
Except for those sanctuaries we have discovered along the way, we drove two thousand miles through an unimaginative, impersonal wasteland.
2 min read
03
Jan
Deep Winter
It has been a steady barrage of wind . . . the sort of wind that occupies your thoughts, and raises your voice.
4 min read
16
Dec
Gripped by Vortex
It is the season when I feel the undertow of email offers, direct mail catalogues, and the bombast of television commercials. They won’t get me.
2 min read
06
Dec
A Conversation With My Boots
The boots are all business at these times, plodding forward like draft horses, saddled with crampons that grab the ice underfoot.
4 min read
05
Apr
Tell Him Not to Feed the Bears
But there he was, busy pulling, twisting, adjusting, exchanging one tool for another from his leather belt in an easy motion.
5 min read
08
Feb
Walking on Ice
It is a superior feature of winter to be able to step onto a frozen pond or lake, and we have many of them. It is liberating.
3 min read
24
Jan
Winter Enchantment
Imagine a place where the leaf action of a spindly plant at the edge of the woods can take center stage each morning out the kitchen window.
2 min read
13
Jun
Winter
If you want the real deal when it comes to New England, you must come in winter.
3 min read