28-April-2025

Spring arrived late here in Vermont. Happily, March and April have relieved our ‘abnormally dry’ spell. We bucked the global trend here in the Green Mountains, March being the warmest on record globally. Another year, another global heat record.

Every springtime is eerily quieter now, fewer birds. Sterile. Earth Day (April 22) passed almost without notice. Americans are focused on other things. Nature is an afterthought.

Two books that have shaped my view of nature and never fail to invoke melancholy and anger at what we have done and fail to do. I keep them in the area I sit to thumb through them from time to time. I usually have to put them down after a few minutes, the guilt and outrage inside bubbling up for what we have already lost and will never recover.