Tag: richard parisio

Frozen marsh and oxbow. (photo by Rich Parisio) Though it's natural, in late February and early March, to anticipate the ...

Talus slab resting on glacial erratics. (photo by Richard Parisio) Among the many kinds of walks we take, the walk ...

Bluebird’s nest box, rustic bench and pavilion. (photo by Richard Parisio) Poets' Walk is one of those places in the ...

Cliff aged with icicles. (photo by Richard Parisio) For outdoor adventure close to home, mingled with scenic grandeur, nothing beats ...

Samuel Morse house built in 1851. (photo by Richard Parisio) Had I stumbled upon Locust Grove in a remote region, ...

Lone White Ash tree in fog. (photo by Richard Parisio) One can take a short walk, close to home, in ...

The view downriver to Esopus Island. My favorite place for a winter walk is where land and water meet. In ...

My favorite time to walk along the famous Trapps cliffs at Mohonk Preserve is in late fall, when the leaves ...

There is something about walking up and down through strata of stone that gives one a feeling for the ancient ...

Rebecca and Sam at Willow Kiln Park, Rosendale. There are places we go to for a sense of primeval wildness, ...

November is an understated month, its grays and browns predominant in the forest now that the trees have mostly shed ...

"The walk to take today is the walk you took yesterday," says John Burroughs in his signature essay "A Sharp ...

In Alice Walker's famous novel, The Color Purple, purple in nature is a symbol of all that is common, but ...

No single feature so defines our region as does the Shawangunk Ridge. The long white battlement of this escarpment is ...

Anyone who spends time outdoors at this season is likely to notice that many wild creatures have begun to synchronize ...

No greater consolation can be found for the waning of summer than to go on a berry-picking expedition. Right now ...

It’s hard to take a walk in midsummer or fall without being aware of the presence of spiders. Although they ...

Sometimes the best way to appreciate our fleeting and miraculous existence on this planet is to study creatures whose brief ...

When Jack-in-the-pulpit rises from the moist earth of the forest, we know that spring has arrived in full force. This ...

This morning, in New Paltz, I hear again the sweet pure song of the white-throated sparrow. “Old Sam Peabody, Peabody” ...