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The Business of the Bee
I’ve been working in the front-yard garden on these recent, steamy days of early summer, when the perennial butterfly bushes come into full bloom and begin to attract nature’s pollinators. Each season,...
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Sum. . . Sum. . . Summertime!
Coming in for a landing. RANDOM MUSINGS: It’s one of those times when it’s necessary to put aside – if only briefly – the daily cares of life and to take at least a modicum of respite to smell the...
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The Unfinished Ceramic
The expression, "Stop to smell the roses" is merely a metaphor intended to prompt us not to forget the beauty that presents itself to us daily. I found it growing in the mulch, next to the leaves of...
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Amid the Chaos of Terror, a Bit of Refreshing Solitude
Springtime at the Sayen Gardens, Hamilton, New Jersey. Decades ago, high up on the promontory of Seminary Hill in Bucksport, Maine, I regularly enjoyed a perfect view of the Penobscot River as it...
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Better than Humans
The regional, national, and international news stories which tend to dominate the pages of print media these days are not the most uplifting. Yesterday, for example, The Sunday Star-Ledger ran another...
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Working the Blossoms
A yellow beauty gets ready to move on. There has not been as many this year. Nor have they arrived as early as in prior seasons. But they finally arrived: first the bees, then the butterflies....
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Nature’s Own Icy Christmas Tree
A Wintry Freeze (Credit/Dick Bergeron) After the last snow storm which showered the Bridgewater area with about 5 inches of snow less than a week ago, I looked out of the dining room window. There, I...
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A Touch of Stealth
A mantis will not usually stand in such an easy to spot position unless it is merely trying to catch some sunshine, as this one was. Pretty-looking things are not always what they seem to be: In...
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The Last Leaf of Autumn
At the very tip of a six-foot, skinny sapling along NATIRAR's nature trail, a last leaf of the season presents its rustic, earthen splendor to all who will stop by for a look and a little...
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Unexpected Beauty, Small yet Substantial
Cradled among the pines. While Pris and I were outdoors during the last week of October in the backyard, cleaning up before the arrival of cold weather (where did it go?), I came across a solitary leaf...
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