It's October and I am sorting out logs in the woodpile—sawing them into lengths to split for the wood stove ...

A perfect summer, the best I'd ever seen here, with unbroken days of blue skies and sunshine, ended abruptly. A ...

One of the quiet joys of rural Japan is the roadside vegetable stand. Often no more than a wooden shelf ...

At the edge of evening, I find the split shell clinging to a branch beside the pond. The chrysalis hangs ...

The summer heat has broken, but as I unload the truck outside my Tokyo apartment, the mosquitoes find me immediately ...

Summer heat builds through the morning like a slow fever. By noon, the valley shimmers with rising air, and the ...

This year's garden taught me more about failure than success, which might be the most valuable lesson of all. The ...

  We've had almost two weeks of stable sunny weather, the kind of high-pressure clarity that makes every morning feel ...

This morning I found a blue longicorn beetle (Rosalia batesi) on the cabin's wooden deck railing, motionless in a patch ...