It has been a great maple syrup season with the sap buckets often overflowing before they are emptied. It is amazing how one drop of sap at a time can accumulate to the forty gallons necessary to make a gallon of syrup. I think of one act of...

I often imagine that I am seeing spirits in the bark of trees or other places in Nature. I choose to look for positive signs or affirmations that I do not go through life alone. I choose to believe I have a whole positive team that accompani...

When there is a little snow on the ground, I can see the twists and turns of the brook as it charts its course down the mountain. A couple of hundred years ago the flow was controlled by dams to power a millstone. When the mill was abandoned...

It is interesting to watch the smaller birds like the juncos and chickadees when they come to the feeders. They like places to escape and hide from larger predatory birds. Tightly packed bushes are favorites. It is also interesting how peopl...

As we approached the orchard, I noticed a bird sitting on top of the new birdhouse, but by the time I got the camera ready, it had flown to a nearby tree. I took a long-distance picture which confirmed that it was a bluebird. It had been my ...