Roundtop Ruminations

The trout lilies, aka dog-toothed violets, are blooming just two steps from my bottom step.  It is a large patch, perhaps 7 ft by 5 feet....

Lichen and bark I’m still coughing from that dratted, awful cold but mostly I am back to normal.  Here on Roundtop, spring is startin...

Dog-toothed violet or trout lily,--take your pick I have had the worst cold of my life for going on two weeks.  My sister gave it to me...

…be the last?   It’s early, even here in southern Pennsylvania, for the last snow to be on the fourth of March.  However, the next we...

The marcescent leaves of these young American beech trees won't be around too much longer. This morning I saw the first northbound ...

Winter’s snow is nearly gone.  Patches and piles remain, as does ice on the lakes and ponds.  After a warm day yesterday I really thou...

For the moment, the forest is snow covered. I say for the moment because I am in the middle of one of those snow/sleet/ice/rain storms th...