I think there are few people who would disagree with the only true thing he said during the entire press conference. No one in this country has ever seen anything like the year we have just endured.
Good garden hygiene in the fall is preparation for a healthy start in the spring. Clear dead, dying and weed plants before cold weather discourages the effort.
The late-summer gardener’s day gets underway like a Jackson Pollack action painting. Is it possible to list the tasks in a straight line and follow the list?
Paul worked on studies involving endangered species, such of the Northern Spotted Owl, and performed various computer simulations and data analyses that were important for the forest industry to sustainably manage their land.
On Tuesday the 25th, the moon appears further east, above the far edge of Sagittarius the Archer. This constellation’s brightest stars form a shape recognizable as a teapot.
Our experience of the landscape is a series of primal sensory contacts. While working around zucchini and yellow squash bushes as well as winter squashes and pumpkins, I am surprised by the fragrance surrounding their brilliant yellow trumpet flowers.
A meteor shower's source of the bright, ephemeral streaks of light is cosmic rock dust strewn by a passing comet years ago. Comet Swift-Tuttle is the source of the Perseids.
I recommend the marsh mallow, Althaea officinalis, as a trouble free perennial that has been cultivated since ancient times as a culinary and medicinal herb.
The instruments scientists have designed to bring human eyes and perception to the edges of our solar system and into the cosmos are contributing to our capacity for knowledge, awe and connection to the natural world beyond ourselves.
July 20 – August 2, 2015
Mt. Washington -- Summer is ripening everywhere – gardens, farms and the softly rounded and arrestingly rugged Berkshire and...
