Highcountry Almanac

Preservation

Buildings, Trades, & Neighborhoods

Wildlife

Land, Water, & Life

Culture

Skill, Song, & Story

Notes

Correspondence
A Break
A Break
Four days of warnings. Thunderstorms sideways, flood alerts stacking on tornado alerts, the phone going off at three in the morning and again at six. You open the windows in... Read more...
The Long End of Winter
The Long End of Winter
The pot has been on since three. Tiny meatballs, escarole, a broth that takes the whole afternoon. By six the windows are fogged and something warm and deep has settled into... Read more...
The In-Between
The In-Between
Sixty degrees in mid-February. Then fifty. The lake stretches out flat and indifferent, still thirty-five degrees no matter what the air does. Beach grass stands dormant — it's seen this... Read more...