Month: August 2010

At the beginning of June the paths and clearings were carpeted in thousands of tiny white blossoms, but we were kept away from the berries …

Everywhere I look these days there are mushrooms: yellow and white and brown and red, squat and gangly, glistening and dusty—a hundred varieties, and almost …

The ants gather and protect the aphids, and milk them of honeydew.  In the winter, they will carry the aphid eggs back to their underground …

There is a rut in the road that has been wet all summer—sometimes it is filled with murky water three or four inches deep, sometimes …

For months I have been walking past an oak on the hill path, looking up among the tops of spruces to search vainly for the …