Category: Travel

• Mud Season

  Winter wanes, not that we ever really had winter this year. Still, the light arrives earlier and departs later each day, and the cold lessens. We are on the brink of mud season. For the past couple of weeks the temperature has vacillated from very cold to unseasonably warm. Each storm has brought rain instead…

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 21, 2016

  Climate Change, Stories, Travel

  mud season, stories, travel

• Paris In Winter

  

  Yesterday, while at the university library, I chanced upon a lovely book of prose and watercolors with the beguiling title, Paris In Winter. In its pages, the author, David Coggins, takes the reader through several winter vacations in the great city. Along the way we discover that David and his wife, Wendy, have been traveling…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 25, 2016

  Arts, Stories, Travel

  Arts, David Coggins, Paris in Winter, stories, Winter Solstice

• Thanksgiving: A Road Trip

  

  It’s been a while since I last posted. We’ve arrived at that time of year when everything seems to happen at once, including the end of the academic term. Somehow, in spite of this, Jennie and I drove the 2400 miles to and from my daughter’s home in Illinois for Thanksgiving. The drive over was…

  Michael Watson PhD

  December 4, 2015

  Arts, native american, Travel

  Native American, Thanksgiving, travel

• Changes

  I’ve been out watering the gardens and window boxes. We are in the midst of a prolonged period of warm, dry weather. We’ve even had a couple of record warm days this past couple of weeks, and may have more this coming week. The gardens have slowed down, although the peppers and green beans are…

  Michael Watson PhD

  September 17, 2015

  Climate Change, Travel

  season change