TRAVELING NEAR & FAR

North Hill Garden

Another outing courtesy of the wonderful Hidden in the Hills program sponsored by the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center. This time

Last day of June, the cool of the night giving way to the heat. Lupines gone by, peonies past their

A cold spring rain falling gently, the past week a rollercoaster of temperature swings from frost to hot. One morning,

Raining today, the landscape in transition, a tattered patchwork of rusty matted leaf debris and splatters of dirty snow. The sap buckets

A break in the rain this morning, with more rain, ice and snow in the forecast. With April only a

Yesterday morning, a fat sugar moon high in the western sky at the break of day, a peachy-pink to the east, clear

Signs of winter releasing its frozen grip, the sugar house swept and buckets hung in the woods, ready for the

Dense fog and slush this morning. The sparkling blue skies of the past week, gone. The deep cover of fluffy

Winter has returned. Snow falling steadily, the landscape soft and white. The robins and songbirds that magically appeared last week, gone

A foot of gorgeous fluffy-white powder snow battered by ice, rain and fog this past week. The milder weather, a