Tag Archives: climate change

Morning after

Posted on July 18, 2021 by springbyker

I just heard a muffled crack in the distance, followed by a limb falling.  After every summer thunderstorm with distorting winds, we lose more huge branches, sometimes entire trees.  I appreciate all the work that arborists and volunteering neighbors have … Continue reading →

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Late August, New England

Posted on August 19, 2018 by springbyker

For the first time in almost three weeks, I can breathe. Although the sky is still the same bleached dead-bone ivory, the temperature has finally slid from the nineties to the low seventies. I’ve opened up the apartment, which has … Continue reading →

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Global climate change and the Dried-Up Waterfalls of the Berkshires Tour

Posted on September 17, 2015 by springbyker

On Labor Day weekend, a friend who lives up the road and I set off on a Berkshires adventure, fortified with old media – Joseph Bushee Jr.’s Waterfalls of Western Massachusetts guide, and an atlas of the same territory – … Continue reading →

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