On this day, the fall season swarms in to start refreshing the scene. Leaves drop; fruits ripens and fall from the vine; bees scramble to capture the last of the pollen; geese gather to prepare for their annual trip to warmer fields. Some people love fall. I prefer spring. The difference is that I favor…
It was a rough week. It’s the first time I can remember being exposed to a 112-degree, “feel-like” temperature. Dew points remained in the upper 70s for days. I had to abandon my upstairs office because, in the absence of upstairs air conditioning, I could not concentrate in the stuffiness of 93 degrees. Today is…
On my last post I wrote about humankind’s limited patience for Nature’s timeline. Today (on this longest day of the year) I give you another stark example of such eternal reckoning. I captured the following photos during my recent exploration of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in New York’s Hudson River Valley. First, they show the importance…
Were these tears of joy for life spared or sorrow for life lost? The emotional reality was that her house was still standing — that my dear friend and others survived — fully encircled by the death of nearly every tall tree nearby. They said it lasted only a few minutes. I had been…
I still remember my reaction when I first learned about this horrible thing called Lyme disease. Few people knew about it then, but by 1991 the problem had become serious enough that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) required doctors to report any new cases. The number of confirmed diagnoses has grown steadily…