No.14,15,16,17

“Spring - Wake up, landscape! Against the drab brown after melted snow, the spring season offers new growth, motion, expansion. Green shoots appear heralding the yellow daffodils and bluer skies. We are energized by lengthening days.

Summer - In our summer season we experience a dazzling array of bright colors under a blazing sun. This is the “explicate order” I refer to in other descriptions. It is the full blown expansion of the “implicate order” of early spring.

Autumn - Here, in the Adirondacks, we experience the riot of colored leaves, but we also experience a slowing down of activity, a contraction of energy as the days shorten. As the season progresses, it still holds color, but reduced in intensity. We begin the “folding in” as transition to rest and silence.

Winter - Silence and rest. Adirondack winters mean our summer birds are gone. Deep snows muffle sounds. The winter sky tends to grey and bluegrey. The sun seems feeble while the moon seems brighter as they illuminate snow banks and icicles. Winter is the completion of “contraction,” a time to slow down and reflect until the cycle of seasons begins again.”