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 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 August 23, 2015 Sparkling light Sunset was still more than half an hour away, but because of the steep slope of this mountainside, the sun had effectively […]
Published July 12, 2015 Salamander waterfall I stopped to admire a miniature five foot waterfall on a small creek and noticed a pair of eyes peering out at […]