Bluebirds are flocking on North Street. Phoenixes are lighting down on the corner and in the park. Migration season is coming … but this is more than I was expecting. The Let It Shine artists are finishing their murals …
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Imagine us a river under North Adams’ sky — #berkshireweekend
Imagine you’re in charge of North Adams, and you have the resources to create the river you want to see … what do you see? Voices mull over answers …
Read articleWomen in the sky in vivid color — #berkshireweekend
Two women holding each other, relaxed and smiling in a swirl of color — they look like the kind of world I want to live in, and they’re vivid and tall as trees in the middle of North Street.
Read articleQuiet ripples in a mountain spring — #berkshireweekend
I’ve found a spring I never knew before, up the Appalachian Trail in North Adams as the path climbs from North Hoosac Road and toward the ridge.
Read articleWhat gives you hope? — #berkshireweekend
The question is hanging in the window of MCLA’s art lab on Main Street over a post box painted like a mosaic. In the sunlight, the colors look as bright and abstract as the bus stop across the street.
Read articleInside scoops with chocolate and cherry ripple — #berkshireweekend
Chocolate cherry ice cream — this is new. The cream comes from here, from High Lawn Farm. The ice cream stand opened four years ago, but according to a flier as I pick up my cone, the dairy farm has just celebrated their 100th summer.
Read articleTasting those East Taconic blues — #berkshireweekend
Second Drop Farm has opened their pick-your-own blueberries, and Caretaker Farm’s CSA offers herbs and flowers and summer vegetables.
Read articleHere be dragons … real ones #berkshireweekend
I met a dragon in the ruins at Ashintully. A live one — really. She’s a bearded dragon named Phoebe, and she came up with a young couple exploring the hills …
Read articleGood nights to wink back at fireflies — #berkshireweekend
The ducks take off, almost running on top of the water, and we watch them through a screen of cat-tails. The tops of the stalks carry cones of russet-gold we think must be pollen …
Read articleThom Smith knows the hidden places in the hills
Thom Smith, if you’re reading this, do you remember the day ten years ago in July when you invited me along with friends to look for rose pogonia orchids in Hawley bog?
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