climate

More

“Less is more,” German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said, sometime around the turn of the [...]

Reads

Rather than muse about the hot summer, I thought I’d post this exciting news about the success of a [...]

Summer

This summer day will burn hot, here and around the hemisphere. Last night the evening air chilled enough that [...]

Rest

Am I the only one here who can’t rest when the moon is waxing? Who sits up sipping chai at two a.m. on [...]

Accidentals

Autumn is a special time of year, when a smattering of wood-warblers from east of the Rockies wander to the Pacific coast. And so I and my friend and birding partner David go looking for some of these accidentals. [...]

Drink

The parable reads like a riddle: two raccoons walked into a yard, looking for a drink . . . (For an immediate [...]

Cooling

. . . but only God can make a tree. So said American poet Joyce Kilmer in 1914, four years before his death in the battle of Ourcq southwest of Paris. [...]