The game of winter should be on for real by now, but we keep getting enjoyably warm teases...

So much is happening in October...

The summer light wanes, sending an ancient signal to all beings in the northern hemisphere that it is time for...

Step right up, folks, to Father Sky and Mother Earth’s magical, mystical, midsummer madness!

Bald eagles with eaglet. (Photo by Dave Holden) Once again the Earth has cycled back to where its northern half...

The light in the woods has changed so abruptly...

Life is starting to really flow now, gradually gaining that glacier-like, unstoppable momentum...

The Lady has doffed her snowy mantle, exchanging it for her verdant Cloak of Life.

Finally Spring begins to unfold and this moon (interchangeable with ‘month,’ but runs from full moon to full moon) is...

The Worm Moon — Finally the increasingly-higher angle of the Sun’s rays will start to have an effect.

Polar winds plunge over the southeast Catskills, freezing all before them and casting frosty whiteness about as they continue to...

Pre-settlement and up through the settlement era, there were many wolves (mostly grey, I believe) still in the northeast until...

As our Earth spins on its journey around the sun, this is the time that the northern hemisphere is tilted...

Autumn winds — Winds of seasonal change blow across these ancient hills, lifting dry leaves from their now sapless branches,...

I think we’ve seen the last Hummingbirds and Monarchs (what relatively few there were) for the season, with a few northern...

We are at the end of what was a glorious Summer. Yes, it was a little strange, July and August...

So much life is in evidence - “making hay while the sun shines”. Both forest and meadow are about as...

Once again the Earth has cycled back to where its northern half (which happens to include us) is tilted towards...

June 1 is considered the start of meteorological summer.

The truth is that spring in the northeast is a time of great (albeit painstakingly slow) transition and impatient humans...