My garden is looking awfully dreary these days, and not just because of the cold gray weather that has been with us since before Christmas.There...
There is something appealing about the beginning of a brand new year. It’s something of an illusion since the calendar is somewhat arbitrary and it...
The days always seem to pass more quickly as Christmas approaches. I think I’ve got all the time in the world to buy the perfect present for...
When a gardening friend recently told me that she was “sadly watching the seasonal demise” of her garden, I began to examine my own feelings about...
By BILL DANIELSONI open the white three-ring binder that holds my birding observation forms. Inside the folder the forms are divided by year with...
This time of year, color in the garden seems to beckon with more urgency, as if to say, “Pay attention, because this is my last appearance of the...
Those of us lucky enough to live in western Massachusetts sometimes feel at least partly insulated from global crises. Of course, our region is not...
In New England’s late summer and fall, whole hillsides of leaves famously change color; meanwhile, another plant color change occurs on a tiny...