The Splitting Maul & The Black Locust.

We name tools for their function: the hammer hammers, the saw saws, and the drill drills.  By custom, then, the Continue reading →

Flight to Jupiter.

Near midnight tonight, the spacecraft Juno arrives in orbit around Jupiter.  Juno left Earth in August 2011, flew a two-year Continue reading →

The Elusive Hickory Chicken.

I roamed the yard this weekend, in search of weeds to exterminate.  Mostly the house is surrounded by hordes of dandelions. Continue reading →

Fireside Chat.

Mid-April in northern Vermont, dusk falls, the sky turns grey.  My house glows a little against the dark.  The thermometer Continue reading →

Winter Arrives.

Following an unusually warm December, winter seems to have arrived.  Burlington’s high yesterday was eight degrees.  Today was similarly cold, then Continue reading →

New England Graves: The Stone Cutter.

Halloween is nearly upon us!  There can be no place more haunted, more full of ghosts and ghouls, than an old Continue reading →

The Cranberry Bog.

Yesterday afternoon, before the rain, I picked cranberries.  I collected around two gallons, and left at least another two to Continue reading →

Eclipsed!

What a show last night, a complete lunar eclipse in a completely clear sky!  I’ve always enjoyed astronomy, but the Continue reading →