Category: Climate Change
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Humanizing the Other
A truly lovely morning. We slept late and have been slow to get moving. Last evening there were storms about, some severe, but we missed out on the rain; the past few days have trended much drier and the gardens could use a soaking, so we’ll likely need to water. The robins are growing rapidly…
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Report from the Mountains
Today dawned chilly and dank. The abundant rains this spring and early summer have created a lush green world, and those luscious greens seem even more robust in today’s saturated air! The Connecticut river marks the divide between the Green Mountains and the Whites. On our western side of the state Lake Champlain demarcates the…
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Summer Solstice
A few days ago we set yet another record high for the date, but this morning is cool and showery. This afternoon we may have sun, but right now the sky is dramatic, cumulus clouds billowing between areas of brilliant, cerulean blue sky. Today marks the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, that moment in…
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Marathon Sunday
Today is the last Sunday of May and, thus Marathon Sunday here in Burlington; today’s run, a yearly ritual, marks the transition to summer. It is a lovely early summer day, a high, cloud-flecked sky dominating the horizon. Such days are welcome now, after weeks of rain, especially as the week ahead looks to be…
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