BTW Berkshires 
At the Old Bennington Weavers textile mill, looms hold fabrics for an artist and fashion designer, Tzaims Luksus, known for his graphics on silk. In Brattleboro, artisans at the family-run Anderson Pipe Organ Company are shaping pipes by hand from sheet metal. Crafters go about their work and grey-haired men lean on their snow shovels.…
The French lilac are blooming in wide arcs in the gardens at The Mount, at the end of the lime walk. Standing in the circle of bushes, I watched two swallowtail butterflies touch down for a drink. In the woods yellow iris still show in marshy places, and around the grounds artwork has come in…
In mid-December, Seth Resnick watched the sun set over Antarctic ice. The sunset glow lasted four hours, and as soon as it faded it began in reverse — sunset moving into sunrise. In the Namib desert in Namibia, he has seen sand dunes that stretch for 50 miles and end as abruptly as the snow-line…