Bloodroot ( Sanguinaria canadensis )

This is the eve of Beltane (or May Day) in the northern hemisphere. The word is Scots Gaelic in origin and marks the beginning of summer. Be...

Lucile's glory-of-the-snow ( Scilla luciliae )

And so they begin... our routines of staying home and doing homely things like gardening, yard work and baking, of taking long rambles with...

What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity, when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs a...

Zen teacher and chef Dana Veldon thinks a simple bowl of lemons can offer us the world, and she always keeps one on the counter in her kitch...

I am a leaf-dance in the woods. I am the green gaze of the ocean. I am a cloud-splitter in the sky. I arrived robed in red out of nowhere an...

On an overcast morning in late April, I am bending over a cluster of blooming Siberian squill ( Scilla siberica )  in a corner of the garden...

Turn off the lights. Go outside. Close the door behind you. Maybe rain has fallen all evening, and the moon, when it emerges between the clo...

Foliage popping out everywhere, avian courtship rites and nests cobbled together in every tree - the village is greening up before our eyes ...

Swiftly the years, beyond recall, Solemn the stillness of this fair morning. I will clothe myself in spring clothing, And visit the slopes o...

It will be a week or two until the "daffies" in the park are up and blooming, but I could not resist bringing home a gorgeous bouq...

By telling the holy, we acknowledge that life is a gift. In fact, the whole universe is a gift. From where or what, and why, we cannot know....

This week's word is radical, a natural choice for this madcap season when greenery is popping up all over the place, and we are thinkin...

Some say it’s in the reptilian dance of the purple-tongued sand goanna, for there the magnificent translation of tenacity into bone and gra...

Wood squill ( Scilla siberica ) One day, there were piles of snow in the yard at least three feet deep, and I could not get anywhere near th...

 

This week's word comes to us from the Middle English attome , the Latin atomus and the Greek atomo s: a- (not) plus -tomos (divided),...