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.
The unpredictable experiences that occur while gardening can be the most engaging or challenging to our senses, our emotions, intellects and aesthetics.
High-elevation squalls every day and night last week kept us in a holding pattern as soft, white blankets were dropped on the whole, leaving the few planting beds that had warmed unapproachable.
In the wild and in the garden, the season is about a month later than last year, when I noted that spring arrived a month earlier than the year before.
I aimed the cold-water spray through the trellis wire to the outer row, swinging the hose slowly, deliberately. Into the midst of my concentration on the task, a ruby-throated hummingbird flew, suspending its colorful little body in the spray I was creating.
