Almanac: Comet Hunting
In ancient times, people were well aware of the regular movements of the heavenly bodies...
In ancient times, people were well aware of the regular movements of the heavenly bodies...
The sun had long since set by the time a friend and I started climbing...
The all-enveloping green of summer is gone. With the deciduous trees bare, the grasses brown,...
A couple of weeks ago I found myself in the middle of a thicket of...
I dragged a chair to the south side of my house recently, the better to...
I had just paddled out from a narrow, cattail-bordered channel into the main body of...
While researching last week’s column about the Sunderland caves I came across a book about...
I’m not particularly claustrophobic, but, still, the hole in front of me was narrow and...
I had the rare luxury last week of watching the stars come out. I...
The sun had set, but it was still light out as a friend and I...
On an unusually balmy evening recently I was eating dinner with a friend on her...
All summer long, as I’ve been traipsing through woods, both locally and in more remote...