A single burnished leaf from the oak in the front yard floats down and comes to rest in a pot of bronzey chrysanthemums on the threshold. Th...

This week's word is one of my favorite words in the whole English lexicon, in part because of the notions of careful thought, deliberat...

Here I am, trying to describe something in the great wide world that is quite beyond description. I know it is so, but I carry on anyway, an...

We awaken to skies that would make an impressionist painter feel like dancing, to Canada geese singing in unison as they fly up from the riv...

In summer, young sunflowers follow the sun around the sky all day long. When they grow up, they face the rising sun, and they no longer move...

Somewhere in the dusty recesses of my noggin, the passage of these sultry summer days is being marked, and wistfully. The clock of the sea...

The lake is a wild and elemental place at sunset, mist floating on the water and draping the shoreline, the call of loons across the water,...

I awaken early and trot out to the garden wearing a faded cotton caftan, straw hat and sandals, and carrying a mug of Earl Grey. It's al...

Nearing the end of June, trees on the Two Hundred Acre Wood are gloriously leafed out, and vast swaths of woodland are as dark as night - th...

It goes without saying that I spend many of my summer hours wandering around and taking photos of things. The eastern Ontario highlands are...

Greater Yellow Lady Slipper ( Cypripedium parviflorum var pubescens ) I sometimes sign on here in the morning, survey my efforts, utter a s...

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, th...

This week's word is one of my favorites, hailing from Middle English, Middle and Old French, thence the Late Latin aestīvālis and earl...

For a day or two this week, we awakened to gray skies and rain beating a staccato rhythm that shunned meter and metronome. Puckish breezes c...

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...

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

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...

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),...

First come jubilant skeins of of geese flying in from the south and singing their return, then ducks splashing about in the melted alcoves o...

Today marks the Vernal Equinox or Ostara, one of two times in the calendar year (the other being the Autumn Equinox or Mabon) when the Earth...