Finding Ulysses

Winter doesn’t officially end until next week, but this weekend we’re already having summer weather. Warm sun and southerly winds are bringing us temperatures in the 80s. Honeysuckle and willow trees are leafing out. Maple sap season in Trumansburg is long over, and the first round of early flowers has already given way to a [...]

photograph of snow in the trees in Trumansburg, February 2011

You can’t but a tree like that. You have to plant it and wait, and hope that others will be able to enjoy it even after you’re gone. No sidewalk, no matter how nicely made, is going to make up for its loss.