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Summer is leaving and autumn is arriving. Some call it Fall. I sometimes wonder if that is because it is related to the Fall of Man from the Garden of [...]

A fifth season that is not quite spring often occurs for a week around March in the foothills of the Green Mountains, VT. The ground can be frozen hard or soft and the birds have not begun to sing as everything waits for spring to begin.

Along northern Vermont's rural byways, the seasons distinguish themselves plainly, speaking volumes on the concept of 'progress' and the cycle of [...]

Did you ever cross a swinging bridge? Have you ever felt a fish tickling your toes in a lake? Each season brings fun and adventure to those who visit the […]

As I look outside these days, I am aware that the trees are preparing to go to sleep. They know intuitively that they will awaken in spring. Their leaves are [...]

He runs, balanced confidently upon the sphere, as if his very motions have brought time into existence. The Earth turns morning into night, winter into spring, and production into rest […]

I WAS BORN IN NORTH DAKOTA, where winter is long and cold. We knew how to have fun in that dark season ... we spent half an hour bundling up [...]

IT MAY SEEM ODD, but often one's favorite things in life turn out to be those one didn't grow up with. So having spent my first 20 odd years in [...]

The change in seasons provides gardeners with a time table for planting vegetables as well as a time for rest from chores. Sowing seeds in the fall is generally not a fruitful endeavor, but sometimes gardeners are rewarded with bright greens in spring for their efforts.

People who have lived in New England long enough each have their own inner sense of spring's imminent arrival. For the author the arrival of maple buds brings the sense of the coming spring.