The other day, fall sent an unrequited love note in a chilly 44-degree envelope. Wrapped in my bathrobe, I zipped out to feed the hens and found this darling bumblebee clinging in sleep under a flower. I turned on my bee GPS, finding them on coneflowers, hastas and daisies awaiting the power ...

Imagine it’s 1851. You and a companion, both aspiring landscape artists captivated by the Romantic principles of the Hudson River School of painting, are trekking across the central Adirondacks, west to east, in search of inspiration and subject material. It’s a nearly trackless, almost ...

Have you ever pondered how you ended up on the path that you took? Robert Frost in his classic poem, “The Road Not Taken,” highlights the idea that choices, no matter how big or small, shape our lives. I think it was author Jack London who talked about walking down the street in San ...

I asked my daughter if she knew how butterflies taste. She gave me a surprised look and responded with, “I’ve never had one.” I am so confused. No. It doesn’t help to keep repeating the exact words, but with a different tone and inflection. I tried. Embarrassingly enough, it took me a ...