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EYES TO THE SKY: Planet Venus, the Evening Star, closest, brightest mid-February
Planet Venus, the brightest celestial object in Earth’s skies after the sun and moon, is at its greatest brilliance in the evening sky right now through February 19. The Evening Star will charm us into...
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NATURE’S TURN: Turning the corner to spring — a Valentine for Earth
A wholehearted Valentine for Earth this year will be realized through contributions from each of us in support of biodiversity in wild and cultivated landscapes. While cultivating a patch of ground for...
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NATURE’S TURN: Dynamic winter designs in snow, treetops
A porcupine sculpted that elegant, snaking wave in powder snow in my front yard. The wave stretched from my house to garden’s edge, about 20 feet, then looped back, losing its artistry when the large...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Shortest day, longest night of the year. Four-planet evenings.
On the winter solstice (sol = sun + sistere = stand still), December 21 this year, the sun seems to stand still at its lowest position in our sky, rising in the southeast and setting in the southwest....
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NATURE’S TURN: Snow prevails above all else as drought persists
Mount Everett, at 2,602 feet, is the highest peak in the South Taconic Mountains. This arctic image of the dome of Mount Everett, as seen from the town of Mount Washington on February 2, 2024, 5:23...
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DATELINE STOCKBRIDGE: Pullman cars and the first recognized Black labor union
In 1890, Clark Bryan wrote the “A New Book of Berkshire.” In it he describes the daily railroad trips from New York to Stockbridge to Pittsfield. He enthuses about the luxurious appointments of the...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Early evening string of planets
As afternoon turns to evening, while blue sky deepens to twilight, planet Venus, the Evening Star, is the first and brightest “star” to appear beginning at about 4:40 p.m., following in the path of the...
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NATURE’S TURN: Good medicine
Bright pink leaves paint a wild blueberry bush in a small meadow adjacent to my polyculture garden. A line of meadowsweet, Spiraea alba, in autumn gold, stands in front of the blueberry. A profusion of...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Awe-inspiring Milky Way nights. Summer stars set
In the following night sky maps, the Milky Way is drawn as a red-purple brush stroke that represents billions of stars and interstellar gases. From dark-sky locations—in the absence of overbearing...
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NATURE’S TURN: Moose — bigger than a horse and smaller than an elephant
A photograph of a bull moose at the edge of a forest in early autumn colors, recently circulated amongst neighbors on the Taconic Plateau, compelled reflection on how this landscape supports what has...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS visits Earth’s skies amidst setting...
The Voyager 1 spacecraft took 35 years to leave the sun’s magnetic influence. It’s traveling one million miles each day. At that speed, it will take 300 years to reach the inner layer of the Oort...
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NATURE’S TURN: Feeding the living world around us — late summer garden and...
“Gardens have a power beyond being beautiful for us, healing for us, a power and efficacy for engaging all species, for taking care of the planet and the creatures around us that give us the gift of...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Brilliant planet Venus follows sunset. Brightest star,...
As we awaken to summer’s turn toward autumn, Sirius, the brightest star visible from Earth, appears close above the southeast horizon in early morning twilight, marking the change of season. Sirius the...
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NATURE’S TURN: Sleeping bees awaken, Fritillary pollinator of the month
Photograph © Judy Isacoff. See the sleeping bumble bee atop a six-foot-tall spire of Blue vervain (Verbena hastata). Another bee slept in a neighboring spire. This photograph was taken an hour and a...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Arcturus and Vega, evening’s brightest stars. Little brown...
In the pale blue sky of evening twilight, the crystalline light of Arcturus, -0.07 magnitude, summer’s brightest star, emerges above the forested ridge to the southwest, halfway to zenith. Minutes...
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NATURE’S TURN: Painted Mountain corn for a changing climate
Descending from 70 rugged native North American heirloom Indian corns, Painted Mountain is a ro-bust, multi-purpose, high-protein and highly nutritional food corn. Dave Christensen began its...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Stargazing supreme — dark skies, warm nights
Our Sun, a modest-sized star, is one of an estimated 100 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, our home galaxy. When naked-eye stargazing (looking without the aid of binoculars or telescope) in dark...
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NATURE’S TURN: North America’s Eastern Phoebe — reliable tenant, engaging...
A pair of Eastern Phoebes (Sayornis phoebe) returns to my house and garden every spring. The couple furnishes their attached apartment with exquisite taste, are models of industriousness, and exhibit...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Here, in the Milky Way galaxy, fireflies flash, barred owls...
“Galaxies, averaging an estimated 100 million stars, range in size from dwarfs with less than a thousand stars, to the largest galaxies known — supergiants with one hundred trillion stars, each...
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NATURE’S TURN: Town of Mount Washington’s ring of summits — two State Forest...
The center of the Town of Mount Washington, Mass. is at the base of Mount Everett (2,602 feet), the highest summit of nine that ring the village on the Taconic Plateau, a sub-range of the Appalachian...
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