every landscape is an accumulation

I see I haven’t posted any photos — except some lady slippers this spring — from the Clark Pond Trails in New London, New Hampshire

Is It Only What’s Visible That’s Knowable

Go ahead and ask : what principle animates the natural : owl pink Lady’s Slipper orchid white-tailed deer woodchuck : is it only what’s visible

Babbling and Strewing Flowers

April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. — Edna St. Vincent Millay * Not just April, but May as well, recklessly and profligately

Such wildness and novelty

I’ve blogged this bog a few times before (April 2015, June 2014) and it’s time now to revisit the place, a new world so close,

Earth Garden I

The first in a series of explorations of other “gardens,” whether cultivated or not. I spend a lot of time in botanical gardens, arboretums, meadows,