This is what I see when I walk into my yard. In a couple of hours I’ll be leading a mushroom walk. I cannot get a decent photograph of the spherical spider-web in the rain barrel on my deck. There’s about an inch of water in the barrel and above it, this glimmering globe of [...]

What this year’s summer solstice experience reveals, along with my prayers.

I’m really proud to be included with people I respect and even more delighted to have these last words in Wayne Hall’s Times Herald Record column: “The fact that the animals make it this far is a testament because the odds are very daunting,” says Highland Mills wildlife expert JJ Murphy of www.writerbynature.com. Still, she [...]

I’m in the wrong place at the wrong time, when my car is hit with enough force to cause me serious injury.