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 ...
Read articleSpring is a beautiful season in the hills — warm days bring color and scent and energy, from maple sugaring and early wildflowers to daffodil festivals and baby animals.
Blossoms and books and baby animals — #berkshireweekend
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.
Read articleOlivia’s Overlook soothes and surprises on a spring day
Lie on your back up here with your feet under the lowbush blueberries and you can hear the wind around you like a river. The cups of the blueberry blossoms and a wild cherry sapling are quivering in the warm air.
Read articleFresh cheese and sourdough: Farmers markets and plant sales — #Berkshireweekend
And suddenly it’s May. We feel the change coming for weeks, fizzing in catkins and lapping up the lower slopes — and then the sun comes out and the maples open their leaves, and the world turns green again.
Read articleYou’re going to meet some gentle people there — #Berkshireweekend
Naumkeag’s annual spring festival is far enough along that the daffodils are wide open and just starting to give ground, and the tulips are all in full blow.
Read articleLime Kiln Sanctuary gives a sunlit view in Spring
The sun came out, and the undergrowth turned softly green — ten minutes ago I’d been traveling in raw weather and now I’d found spring. I was walking through Lime Kiln Wildlife Sanctuary for the first time.
Read articleColumbine and jazz: Warm days are coming — #berkshireweekend
The splash of red is vivid and unexpected — wild columbine. I wouldn’t have looked for them this early, or at this bend in the trail, with the white trillium growing thickly up the slope.
Read articleSpring wildflowers and baby animals emerge — #Berkshireweekend
The bloodroot are back. I just went down to one of the closest places I know to look for them, out on the trail along the western bank of the Hoosic River.
Read articleExploring 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.
Read articleWhat if we thought about what we want to feel in a garden? — #berkshireweekend
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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