Cormorant nests awaiting the return of the spring migration, Putnam County, NY

Smells like totalitarianism.

Moonlight over the lake in the waning days of winter. Lake Carmel, NY

Like Putin's "special military operation"?

Just finished reading this, a memorable, well-written account of achievement, courage, and endurance on Lake Superior.

"In the bleak midwinter,
frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
water like a stone."
Christina Rosetti

Orwell said, "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable." The Trump regime is proof of that.

The Burning of the Green

What do you do with those discarded Christmas trees?
"The Burning of the Green," my latest blog post is at
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Winter dusk in the northern suburbs of NYC

IN THE SHADE: A blog on personal narrative and memoir, Irish history/culture, writing and language

"Abie's Christmas," my annual Christmas post:
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#NatureWriting
Ben Bulben Mountain, Sligo, Ireland

Later, dude.

Autumn Sunset, Falmouth, Cape Cod

Autumn Sunset

Brewster, NY

Lovely day for a ramble in the Cavan Burren.

"Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal
Pouring redemption for me. . . ."
Patrick Kavanagh, from
"Canal Bank Walk"
Grand Canal, Dublin

Follow Your Bliss:
"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there the whole while, waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living."
--Joseph Campbell

September Dahlias

Going to seed amid September blooms. The Garden, September 13, 2025.

Great!

"Summer's lease hath all too short a date." (Shakespeare, Sonnet 18). The Garden, September 1st.

"You People of the 1900s," my latest blog post, is at
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"You People from the 1900s," my latest blog post, is at
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Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mandel, Revelations by Elaine Pagels, Hamner by Maggie O'Farrell.

They should tell that to priests who all but endorsed Trump.

He's truly deluded if he thinks he represents the middle. Just another American Fascist.

He's smug, elitist, biased, and dismissive.

Lilies in bloom

Summer evening, Falmouth, Cape Cod