By Bill Lawyer I recently spent twelve days hiking about 140 miles from Porto, Portugal, to Santiago de Compostela in…
By Bill Lawyer If you ever find yourself complaining about walking into a spider web some evening or early morning,…
By Bill Lawyer One of the pleasures of springtime in Rye is savoring the scent and color of our urban…
Right in Our Backyard Fireflies and Climate Change By Bill Lawyer Ever since I started writing articles about nature and…
By Bill Lawyer Several years ago I wrote an article for this newspaper in which I described the ways that…
By Bill Lawyer My neighborhood, which I call “Halsted Hill,” has a large number of properties that include rock retaining…
By Bill Lawyer A few of my “Right in Our Backyard” columns have somewhat stretched the definition of “backyard.” Whelks,…
By Bill Lawyer Spring is still weeks away, but I’m already thinking about daffodils, for which I’ve long had an…
By Bill Lawyer There’s a small but hardy crew of short-cutters, strollers, joggers, and dog walkers that include the…