Published May 3, 2016 Abundant Azaleas I am named for my father’s sister, Ruth Happel Smiley, who for most of her life worked on the gardens at Mohonk […]
Published September 28, 2015 Syzygy When three celestial objects are aligned, it is known as syzygy, which also is a good scrabble word if you have no […]
Published November 3, 2015 Wild and Woolly Winter In 1948 Dr. Curran, then curator of insects at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History, began a tradition of traveling […]
Published March 10, 2017 Bee Hummingbird I recently returned from The Birds in Flight Photography contest in Cuba. After visiting last year to explore the vegetation, I left […]