This year, Chesterwood’s 47th annual outdoor sculpture show, “Global Warming/Global Warning,” asks viewers to consider such themes amid the threats that climate change poses to Chesterwood’s own old-growth forest.
as if time could run backwards at their beckoning;
as if winter could recede from my fingers and the white gate swing wide,
with the fall riot returning to the bracketing treelimbs,
thence to turn verdant and alive, the schoolyard now summer-empty.
Similar to many open grassland birds, larks have declined about 2 percent a year since the 1960s, making the 2014 State of the Birds list of “common birds in steep decline.”
