Naturally Curious:  A Photographic Field Guide and Month-by-Month Journey Through the Fields, Woods and Marshes of New England , a book written and largely photographed by Mary Holland, former compiler of the Vermont Bird Alert, recently won the 2011 Nature Guidebook category of the National Outdoor Book Awards. 

    If you haven't yet read Mary's unique guide you owe it to yourself to do so. 

    Ed Hack

    Stockbridge,Vt.