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Lee mulls new affordable-housing, mixed-use development plan across from Eagle Mill

The project proposes to add 69 units in a multi-family residential design, as well as commercial space.

BOB GRAY: Winter solstice

Regardless of the temperature and the calendar, we’ll know we’re on our way out of the long, dark cold.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 37: Is it spring yet?

Yet March brings the cruelty of delayed anticipation, of yearning for signs of new beginnings, of suspension between the end of one thing and the beginning of the next.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 36: Microclimates

March, after all, is a time of transition, and it’s in subtleties of difference that the microclimates of human ecologies emerge.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 35: Winter intimacies

To read the previous chapters of ‘Illuminating the Hidden Forest,’ click here. During the winter, the forest is spare. We can look through the trees at...

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 34: Winter ice

On each railing a thick ribbon of ice runs from end to end. Below the bridge the water is frozen into mirrors of shiny slickness.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 33: Deer in the dawn

We haven’t been in the woods for many days, Lily and I. I soon saw the wisdom of that absence in the downed limbs and needled branches littering the fresh snow.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 31: Summer eyes and winter eyes

But now it is winter. The forest floor is covered with a blanket of snow. The trees are bare. My winter eyes are different from my summer eyes.

BOB GRAY: March’s face

For me this unwonted warmth is discouraging, even disconcerting. My mind’s not right.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 28: The miracle of milkweed

A veritable banquet for ants, flies, bees, wasps, beetles and butterflies, milkweed’s best-known customer is the monarch butterfly.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 25: Hibernation

For me, winter in the Berkshires involves quite a bit of curling up on a window seat in my snug den, maybe with a book in hand, my dog lying on my tummy, looking forward to an afternoon nap and an early bedtime.

December haikus

When I wake up at 7 in the real morning and hear the long, detailed weather report, I feel... What can I say?

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 23: My canine sensory extender

Lily draws us into possibilities and mysteries, while at the same time reminding us of our limitations.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 22: Getting ready for winter

Sometimes, meditatively, we follow one or another leaf with our eyes as it circles slowly downward before settling on the ground.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Thanksgiving

I thought I would list all the reasons I am happy to live in this artistic little bubble I have been calling home for about 25 years.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Giving thanks

As we celebrate the season's bounty at our Thanksgiving table, our Self-Taught Gardener Lee Buttala is thinking about the alternative feast going on outdoors.

Winter is just the beginning at The Farm New Marlborough

Farmer Tom is a one man-show, unless you count the dozens upon dozens of animals that are slowly transforming the rugged land through rotational grazing patterns, proving, in short, that many hooves make light work.
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