It’s full moon, and I’m walking up the old road across the fields, so I can see the hill above me … glowing red and gold. Naumkeag in Winterlights is bright as penny candy.
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We have liftoff into the Northern Lights (Nov 17 newsletter)
The berries make a vivid streak along the road, and there’s something buoyant about that wash of color now against a grey sky.
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New dig affirms Mohican homesites in the Southern Berkshires
An archaeological dig along the Housatonic River shows the site of Mohican homes over a long span of years.
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Late summer blooms under the boardwalk at Jackson Pond
The pines open into cat-tails, and the view widens into dense deep green, and I'm looking across the marsh and the water to Yokun Ridge.
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‘If I had wings’ … artists chart new worlds (August 4 newsletter)
An angel is kissing a woman. It’s an arresting way to begin. As you walk into the rooms of fantasy paintings at the Norman Rockwell Museum, he stretches out wings shimmering pale pink and green like the inner side of a mussel shell.
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Oscar Wilde spins comedy on the edge of sadness
Two young men are talking in a London apartment at dusk. They feel familiar as they banter, inventing memes short enough for Instagram stories. It’s 1895, and The Importance of Being Earnest is open at Berkshire Theatre Group.
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Stone, bronze and glass are Taking Flight in the garden
Glass tiles gleam like stone under water. They reflect light in wide eyes. Two owls look out of a mosaic in a stucco wall that seems to ease into the land around it, like a new outcrop from a vanished temple …
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Mindy Lam infuses spring into wearable art
The flowers tangle together like meadow grass in the morning, glinting with dew, and a small bright frog is climbing up the stems. Jewelry artist and fashion designer Mindy Lam opens the summer at Berkshire Botanical Garden.
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Vivid color is coming back to Naumkeag (May 5 Newsletter)
The tulips are glowing around the greenhouse at the foot of the hill, crimson red and flame orange and lemon. … I’ve caught an hour of sunlight on the morning I slipped down to Stockbridge for the daffodil festival, and it feels like pure radiant luck.
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Flights of Fancy bring sparkling color to the garden
Growing up on a farm in Hong Kong, Mindy Lam saw the bright flashing colors of birds, and moths as large as her two hands. She would wade in the river, looking for shrimp and minnows and dragonflies. So it means a great deal to her now, as an internationally known jewelry artist living near Washington D.C., to bring her creations to the Berkshire Botanical Garden.
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