“Green Mountain Riverscape” • Thundering Brook, Killington, Vermont “Gorgle of Marble” • Kent Falls, Kent, Connecticut “Meigs Dawn” • Hammonasset Beach State Park, Madison, Connecticut “Machimoodus Dreamscape” • Machimoodus State Park, East Haddam, Connecticut “Old Dish Mill Falls on Jim Brook” • Roaring Brook Nature Center, Canton, Connecticut “Twilight Meadows of Steep Rock” • Steep Rock Preserve, Washington, Connecticut
Two Mile Brook, Ansonia Nature Center, Ansonia, Connecticut

Mist on the Copper City Woodlands

With winter behind us and the spring renewal ahead, I find myself looking back through my last three months of work in search of the highlights of the past season. There have certainly been plenty, from a golden sunrise over the frigid Shepaug Valley in Washington to the icy ...

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The Falls of Burlington (Burlington, Connecticut)

The Falls of Burlington

My new piece, "The Falls of Burlington", features a stretch of exquisite cascades along Bunnell Brook which churn ceaselessly over rock outcroppings beneath the shade of a dense forest canopy. If we follow the wispy whitewater upstream, through a jagged rock gorge softened by carpets of moss, we catch ...

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Winter Bliss and River Ice (Shepaug River, Hidden Valley Preserve, Washington, Connecticut)

Landscapes in Transition

Perhaps the most striking characteristic of the New England landscape is the dramatic way in which it is forever being transformed by seasonal rhythms. During the summertime, I find myself walking through thick forests that seem virtually tropical in their abundance of crowded greenery. Yet only months later, ...

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Housatonic Summer (Housatonic River, Kent, Connecticut)

Amongst the Northwest Hills

Connecticut's Northwest Hills, encompassing roughly 1,000 square miles and 20 municipalities, are oftentimes thought of as the "the backcountry" of the Nutmeg State. These highlands are largely a rough and mountainous terrain, deeply-furrowed with valleys and river gorges that cut between several of the highest summits in the state. ...

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Mirror of the Shrouded Hills (Kent Pond, Killington, Vermont)

Green Mountain Odyssey

If you've read any number of my posts here on From the Field, you probably know that I get a bit nostalgic when it comes to thoughts of the "old days" of Connecticut. You know, the days before the railroads came through, before industry completely transformed the previous two ...

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