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Dramatic stone I picked up on Plage Val-Comeau

Everyone seems to be traveling with a vengeance again, but after covid immobilization I've still not quite got the hang of it. Why is it...

A trip to the Acadian Peninsula from NYC really is a road trip, too.

On Wednesday, I read the laconically mind-blowing words Monday was the Earth’s hottest day in at least 125,000 years and Tuesday was hotter....

For our last day in these parts we checked out the island of Lamèque, whose main claim to fame is a church whose interior was repainted by a...

Le Petit Futé calls it a veritable time machine and it's true: the Village Historique Acadien outside Caraquet is an amazing journey i...

The forecast predicting a dull cloudy day turned out to be spectacularly wrong, so we took advantage of the clear northern light to explore ...

Where in the world? We've slipped away for a holiday on the Acadian Peninsula, the northeast corner of the Canadian maritime province of...

I didn't grow up in tornado alley or in a place threatened annually by hurricanes, but I'm starting to feel what it's like livin...

Some highlights of a New School panel discussion on generative AI today. We are definitely of the " if you can't beat 'em join ...

Another picture from the BBG, whose gardeners are such artists!

Went back to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden today, after much too long a hiatus. (The last time may have been Aug 20, 2019!) Lovely to see what...

I've been trying to write a short article about religion and the Anthropocene for a magazine of environmental science and policy. It...

It's the last Sunday in June, the day of New York City's Pride Parade. When in the city I've been involved in one capacity or ot...

I thought the exhibition "Van Gogh's Cypresses" at the Met would be one of the highlights of a treeful summer but I'm unde...

Our congregation usually has two "summer reads" each year. I'm never there for the discussions, and won't be this year eit...

I just submitted my exam for the Citizen Pruner's class . It seems designed to facilitate passing, but I still have my fingers crossed j...

Ashen air makes for impressive special effects... 

Our Citizen Pruners class got some hands-on experience today, taking down damaged and dead branches from a Japanese zelkova on Lex, a swamp...