Canadian Tiger Swallowtail ( Papilio canadensis ) In summer, I spend hours photographing dragonflies, butterflies, bumbles and bees, puddles...

The best time is late afternoon when the sun strobes through the columns of trees as you are hiking up, and when you find an agreeable rock ...

The delightfully complex shape of columbines always reminds me of a harlequin's chapeau or a medieval court jester's cap. The archit...

White admiral ( Limenitis arthemis )  

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their...

In the science of zoology, aestival refers to the tendency of all living creatures to be sleepy and slow moving in the heat of summer, and b...

Mother rain, manifold, measureless, falling on fallow, on field and forest, on house-roof, low hovel, high tower, downwelling waters all-was...

June would not be June without clay pots and cauldrons and planters of red geraniums (cranesbills) blooming on the thresholds of houses in t...

There is no mystery in this association of woods and other worlds, for as anyone who has walked the woods knows, they are places of corresp...

Bearded Iris ( Iris germanica vulgaris ) This morning's sumptuous blooms are named for the goddess of the rainbow, Iris, messenger of th...

And so it goes . . . One day, the old crabapple is bare and forlorn, the next day it wears a multitude of tiny leaves. Almost overnight, the...

Consider the other kingdoms. The trees, for example, with their mellow-sounding titles: oak, aspen, willow. Or the snow, for which the peopl...

Red is the color of new maple leaves on the old trees in the garden, the cardinals who visit my feeders, the koi in a nearby pond, the gentl...

 Common dandelion ( Taraxacum officinale ) Sometimes I do the talking. Other times, the camera takes over, and the images it captures prefer...

There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. T...

Trout lily or Dogtooth violet ( Erythronium americanum )

Earth is a good word for pondering in this shaggy season as we work in our gardens and tend the sweet beginnings of the harvest to come. All...

May, and among the miles of leafing, blossoms storm out of the darkness— windflowers and moccasin flowers. The bees dive into them and I too...

Great White Trillium ( Trillium grandiflorum ) She appears in the woods a little later than her more vibrantly coloured red cousins, but she...

Looking at the heavens places me in time and space - and beyond them. Gazing at the stars, I look through heaven’s wrinkle; the light I see...

We awakened to gray skies yesterday, to rain reveling in its own refrain and beating a staccato rhythm on the roof that shunned meter and me...