Many of the summer people for whom I work chose to stay through the fall. Covid has changed the habits and schedules of most of us. I am happy for the added population. It’s nice to share our...

Every year when the vegetable garden freezes it’s a combination of sadness and relief. The vegetables grow in what I guess is called a frost pocket because nothing was lost around my house or...

As I often do, I need to complain about last weekend’s wind. It stripped many of the just-turning beautiful fall leaves from my sugar maple. I bought the sapling in 1977 from the Felix Neck...

The last few weeks have offered up some pretty spectacular cloud formations. Several times I’ve noticed enormous thunderheads in the very blue sky. Oddly, they do not live up to their name and...

Everyone I have seen recently seems to be out of sorts. There are several possible explanations. Certainly there is Covid fatigue and of course the state of our nation and world. The change in...

Hurricane Teddy passed by on Tuesday and delivered some mighty blustery conditions. It was downright unpleasant tending to outdoor chores. Wind has always been my least favorite weather. I can work...

Last Monday and Tuesday were a bit hazy. NPR reported it was a smoke plume from the wildfires out west. How is that even possible? Supposedly, it got up into the jet stream and then it’s a...

Labor Day weekend delivered some fine weather — the kind that makes a person glad to be alive. Several nights were so chilly that the extra blanket was needed. I love that. The week following...

I was happy last week at the possibility of a rainy Saturday. I planned several indoor activities and neglected my Friday watering duties. When it, once again, failed to deliver, I wondered who or...

Honestly, I have no business ever complaining about the weather. I’ve been following national weather related stories this week — the horrible hundreds of fires in California and the Gulf...