In this collection of essays, stories, and poetry, author Jim Stratton focuses on the sheer beauty of nature and the human connection to the natural world. Endowed with Stratton's own illustrations, Waist Deep in Broom Sedge celebrates the splendor that can be found in the world around us such as in water, snow, color, light, fog, and rain.

In the poetry selection, "While It Was Still Snowing," Stratton praises the wonder of snow.
There is no beauty compared
To snow's shadow and light;
No blues as coldly blue,
No whites as brightly white,
As when it is still...