The scythe feels surprisingly light when I lift it. It swings through the clover easily, and the movement feels natural, though I know I’ll get smoother with practice …
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Flavor ripens at 328North — Micro and flower farm
Tu Le picks leaves of Thai basil and rubs them in his fingers in his garden at 328North. He can smell clove in the scent, and anise and cinnamon. The flavor brings back visceral memories.
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Counterculture — women bridge earth and sky in clay
She’s wading knee-deep in the meadow, and the sky moves in her eyes. She’s standing among friends on an open hillside below the Taconic ridge …
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What’s your first real taste of summer? (#this weekend)
You know the feeling when something hits home and you feel your expression shift instinctively — like tasting something that surprises you with its flavor?
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Finding waterfalls along the Appalachian Trail
I came to the waterfall almost by accident. I didn’t know I was close — I just wanted to get into the woods on a sunny morning …
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Exploring country roads in lilac time
Lilac time is here now … These are the few evenings in a year when I can sit on the front steps in the evening and feel petals blow against my shoulder.
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Exploring Chatham N.Y. in a thunderstorm
There’s something mysterious and unexpected about walking into a greenhouse in a thunderstorm. … I came through a door in Chatham Berry Farm and felt as though I’d walked into another universe.
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Let’s go Maying — it’s blossom time
This is the transforming time, every year. We come to a day or two in May when every bare budding twig seems to open all at once …
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Wildflowers and spring bulbs are opening
Do you ever keep a record of things like this — send a photograph of the first winter aconite in bloom, coming in from an afternoon in the back yard muddy and excited because the bloodroot have come back?
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Revel in a spring hike up Ragged Mountain
On a late March Saturday I climbed Ragged mountain with a co-worker, a friend of his and an ecstatic dog who came back with mud up to his belly.
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