Poplar leaves tip and glimmer dark chocolate and copper, as though they’re blowing in the moonlight. Ellen Driscoll paints them in walnut ink … and shows them healing the earth.
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Have you ever felt a chick scrabble in your hair ... or a day-old kid rest tiny feet on your knee, still soft and slender as your thumb? BTW Berkshires is exploring Western Mass. as the season warms up ...
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I walked along the river last night, and it felt like the first nudge of spring — and I can see why writers like Arianna Collins and Lara Tupper think of spring as a good time for Haiku.
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We’re waiting for totality … sitting in the shadow of the moon. It’s hard to explain how the light changes in an eclipse.
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This weekend is named for a woman. In the mind of a man who lived and wrote near the Scots border 1500 years ago … Easter is a woman who dances, a woman shining with the dawn.
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Someone moved behind me with a rustle and slid into the water. A high voice called softly up the scale, and I caught a glint in the corner of my eye … a suggestion of fur and a splash.
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bale of turtles. That’s the collective noun we find for the gathering on a rock by the water, all basking in the unexpected warmth of a late winter day.
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Today feels like time traveling … a leap day sounds like a quantum dancer, something out of a science fiction novel, step into this moment and it can take you anywhere.
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Sunset over the water on a clear winter day turns the sky a deep blue and a touch of rose. And it turns out so does a rainbow of color on an ice fall at the hairpin bend.
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We have ways of moving in and out of each other’s spaces, a friend tells me. We’re driving back roads through the hilltowns in the dusk, and we’re talking about how people in this country live together.
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