This patch of campanules (bell flowers) has been growing in this spot since before we bought the house. It just comes up every year. And th...

Here's my first look at this year's grape crop. The tiny round buts that you can see are grape flowers. They'll soon bloom and t...

  To celebrate the annual Tulip Festival in Albany, NY, here are some bulbs from 2016. This year's festival gets under way on May 9. I...

I call this stand of conifers "the piney woods." It still is "piney," but all the deciduous trees have been removed. ...

This is the Woolworth Building in lower Manhattan as seen from the World Trade Center's observation deck back in 1994. Woolworth Buildin...

I'm planning to go into town this morning for the weekly market at Saint-Aignan. I want some chicken sausages from the poultry vendor. S...

We live under a relatively busy commercial air corridor. We see (and sometimes hear) jet liners and their vapor trails passing over in the s...