In Season: A Natural History of the New England Year

“We live with a myth about New England,” write naturalists Nona Bell Estrin and Charles W. Johnson: “that we have four distinct seasons here.” As careful and experienced observers of the natural world, Estrin and Johnson know that nature’s progressions are gradual, continuous, and interconnected. And as they demonstrate in their remarkable book, the close examination of nature—even unassuming landscapes close at hand—yields rich rewards on a daily basis. In Season combines the immediacy of ...