Talk to the hand

This picture looks like a mountain on fire, but actually it is just a dramatic sunrise in the Smokies. The natural smoke […]

I recently returned from another visit to Costa Rica, a country I have visited so often that it is like being with […]

The Blue Ridge Parkway is 469 miles of views. Construction began 80 years ago, and was finally finished in 1987. Though it […]

I am named for my father’s sister, Ruth Happel Smiley, who for most of her life worked on the gardens at Mohonk […]