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

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...

When I am wise in the speech of grass, I forget the sound of words and walk into the bottomland and lie with my head on the ground and liste...

Spotted Jewelweed or Touch-Me-Not (Impatiens capensis ) There is a whole thicket of these colorful critters flowering along the creek in the...

On a fine morning in late August, a weathered cedar stump by the trail into the deep woods wears a carpet of haircap moss ( Polytrichum comm...

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

Columbine ( Aquilegia canadensis )

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...

Columbine ( Aquilegia canadensis )

What a wild ride this is. Spinning at six thousand miles per hour on a minuscule ball in a field of stars that stretches into millions of ga...

Spotted Jewelweed or Touch-Me-Not (Impatiens capensis) There is a whole thicket of these colorful critters flowering along the creek in the ...

When I am wise in the speech of grass, I forget the sound of words and walk into the bottomland and lie with my head on the ground and liste...

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

Large Yellow Lady Slipper ( Cypripedium parviflorum var pubescens)  I sign on here in the morning, look at my photographic efforts, utte...

Belonging so fully to yourself that you're willing to stand alone is a wilderness—an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searc...

Listen says fox it is music to run over the hills to lick dew from the leaves to nose along the edges of the ponds to smell the fat du...

The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, i...

Dryad's Saddle or Pheasant Back Mushroom   (Polyporus squamosus or Cerioporus squamosus) One goes into the woods in May in s...