Three days before the storm that brought a lot of heavy wet snow I had taken a photo of the magnificent birch tree that grew in my...

“Tis said, in summer’s evening hour Flashes the golden-colour’d flower. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge In 1762 Elizabeth, the nineteen year old...

In England - Now! And after April, when May flowers... —Robert Browning This past year was not a time to travel, so I look back to May...

In the frozen winter world, deciduous trees are naked before the sky. Their trunks, branches, and bark are more prominent

“You say tomāto and I say tomăto” -- George and Ira Gershwin You say vegetable, and I say fruit. This argument pits botany against the...

“Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer’s welcome thrice more wish’d, more rare.” —William Shakespeare January is the depth of...