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Judy Isacoff

Writer, naturalist, educator, and garden designer Judy Isacoff has published in regional monthlies, weeklies and dailies as well as professional journals in the field of environmental education. She is a columnist for the Battery Park City, New York Broadsheet Daily and The Broadsheet, and for five years contributed a weekly astronomy column to The Berkshire Eagle. A leader in nature study and curriculum-based gardening at schools in urban and rural settings, Isacoff is passionate about cultivating the sense of wonder through her teaching and writing. Her website: NaturesTurn.org

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Life In the Berkshires

NATURE’S TURN: Summer Solstice — primal earthly wonders under the sun

Summer solstice, the exact moment our sun reaches its northernmost point, is tomorrow, Sunday, June 21.
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EYES TO THE SKY: Planets Venus and Jupiter dynamic duo, longest days of the year continue

Today, and for the coming few days to a week, the sun sets close to 8:30 p.m.
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NATURE’S TURN: Cultivate wonder — grow flowering native plants

Inspired native plant gardener Abigail Rogers-McKee contributed photographs of her Berkshire gardens to this edition of "Nature’s Turn."
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EYES TO THE SKY: Summer star patterns emerge

Captivating summer star patterns are rising in northern skies at nightfall. Outstanding among them, Cygnus the Swan soars and Scorpius the Scorpion’s menacing anatomy fascinates.
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NATURE’S TURN: Community cornucopia — another look at the Berkshire Food Co-op

Fruits, vegetables, dairy products, seafood, meat, and condiments—fresh, refrigerated, frozen, or preserved—are among the more than 90 percent of foods and household essentials vetted to be organically produced. You don’t have to search for the certification—it is ubiquitous.
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EYES TO THE SKY: Discover the Moon—go to space with Artemis II Astronauts

"The quest to reach the Moon has always been a key part of the American myth. So has the country's embrace of immigrants and...
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NATURE’S TURN: Come out! Come out! Wherever you are!

It is in the spirit of "hide and go seek" that I meet you, the reader, as we share our wild native landscape, greeting plants as they reappear after winter dormancy, as well as other seasonal observations, offered here through the photographs that follow.
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EYES TO THE SKY: Here comes the sun

Astronomically, the Vernal Equinox, the first day of spring, occurs on March 20, 2026, when sunrise is 6:57 a.m. and sunset 7:05 p.m. In our locale, close to equal day and night also occurs on the 18th and 19th.
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NATURE’S TURN: Snowbirds and other avian visitors come close to our homes

The dark-eyed junco, also known as slate-colored or northern junco, Junco hyemalis, is widely referred to as the “snowbird.”
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EYES TO THE SKY: Celestial numbers in the spirit of Valentine’s Day

It’s 11 o’clock on a clear, moonless night when, although ready to call it a night, I pause at a glass door that looks out to the southwestern sky: I am moved by an urge for contact with the stars.
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NATURE’S TURN: The art of snow

See, here, deciduous twigs and evergreen needles meticulously painted with white brushstrokes. And, there, a standing, windswept wave on the hood of a car. Sunbeams elicit sparkle.
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EYES TO THE SKY: The Winter Circle with planet Jupiter

We flew between the giant planet Jupiter and the sun on January 10. This is Jupiter's yearly opposition. We are now in the middle of the best time of year to watch this mighty world.
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NATURE’S TURN: Our neighbors, yellow birch trees, secret perfumeries

The forests of the South Taconic Range, encompassing public access points in the Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York tri-state area, are a treasury of trees that encourage close observation.
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EYES TO THE SKY: Winter solstice, winter stars, planets Jupiter and Saturn

Our everyday experience of celestial phenomena now begins with observation of our sun’s short, low arc that rises from the southeast and sets in the southwest.
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NATURE’S TURN: Native flora and fauna of the Southern Taconic Range

Native flora and fauna engage and delight explorers of all ages along Mt. Washington’s scenic trails.
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EYES TO THE SKY: Summer stars west, winter stars east, planets Saturn and Jupiter evening sky

As twilight deepens during the evenings of November 24 to 28, a waxing crescent moon appears in the south to southwest, above the setting Teapot asterism.
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