A tree branch in the mountains travels through the seasons and across rivers and oceans until it becomes a piece of driftwood on the beach.

In the endless light of summer days, and the magical gloaming of the wee small hours, nature in Jim's beloved Highlands, Perthshire and Trossachs heartlands is burgeoning freely, as though there is one long midsummer's eve, nothing reserved. For our flora and fauna, for the very land itself, this is the time of extravagant growth, flowering and the promise of fruit and the harvest to come. But despite the abundance, as Jim Crumley attests, summer...

Set in northeastern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, The Tides of Time: A Nova Scotia Book of Seasons paints vivid portraits of contemporary labourers whose harvests mark the rhythms of the seasonal year. Each of the twelve monthly chapters tells the story of a labour unique to that month, including jobs like tuna fishing, cranberry farming, maple syrup production, sheep farming, beekeeping, lobster fishing, and foraging for wild mushrooms. Stewart revitalizes...

Graced by the Seasons: Fall and Winter in the Northwoods offers a sequel to Bates' highly popular book, A Northwoods Companion: Fall and Winter. This "Volume 2" provides readers with more fascinating insights into the remarkable transitional season of autumn, and the many extraordinary adaptations animals and plants employ to survive a northern winter.

A little girl and her older friend poetically describe the garden as it changes through the seasons. The two friends watch the birds, fly a kite, plant flowers and play in the snow.

Snow falls, animals burrow, and children prepare for the wonders winter brings -- Provided by publisher.

Describes how sunshine and the tilt of the earth's axis are responsible for the changing seasons.