Morning light and trees, smoke from the wildfires burning out west and up north. Breathing is difficult in such conditions, and visibility i...

Happy September!

Needing one, I invented her— the great-great-aunt dark as hickory called Shining-Leaf, or Drifting-Cloud or The-Beauty-of-the-Night. Dear au...

The eastern Ontario highlands are awakening, wildflowers, ferns and tiny saplings coming up through the bleached and tattered fallen leaves ...

Paper birch (Betula papyrifera) also called White birch or Canoe birch Here we are on the cusp between winter and springtime, weary of ice a...

Happy March! For a few days this week, weather in the village was mild, and the towering snowdrifts everywhere subsided a bit. Birds sang li...

Little things leave me feeling restless in January. I meander through stacks of gardening catalogues, plotting another heritage rose or thr...

And so it goes... Many trees in the Lanark highlands have already lost their leaves and fallen asleep in their leaf-strewn alcoves, but oth...

In the deep fall      don't you imagine the leaves think how  comfortable it will be to touch      the earth instead of the nothingness ...

Needing one, I invented her— the great-great-aunt dark as hickory called Shining-Leaf, or Drifting-Cloud or The-Beauty-of-the-Night. Dear a...

It was the first thing Beau and I noticed as we set off on a long walk this morning before the heat and humidity drove us indoors. Early lig...

One day there are no leaves or flowers on village trees, and the next day the same trees have embraced the season, their voluptuous canopie...

Paper birch, also called White birch and Canoe birch ( Betula papyrifera ) Here we are on the cusp between winter and springtime, weary of i...