I piddled around and waited too long to order chicks. Sold out! I should have realized, after hearing stories about seeds flying off the she...

It's bloodroot time! Tempus est Sanguinaria canadensis. Babelfish doesn't work for ancient languages, so that is possibly not corre...

Fungi graffiti. (Spalting in tree trunk.) Snail graffiti. Insect scrollwork?

We've gone from snow to temps in the 70s in one week. Don't plant your tomatoes yet though, says our Extension guy; there's stil...

Snow in pines. Snow in beeches. Now they look like Christmas Ferns! Rabbit trail revealed. Snow in swampy area. Snow in other beeches. Snow...

The forecast was for two to four inches by daybreak. The TV is full of snowmen and snowball fights and cantevenseethegrass , but here - not ...

How I managed to live (mumble, mumble) years being unaware of sundogs, I'm not sure. It's been two years since I first saw one (and ...

I'm not sure if it's the groovy screensaver, the Grateful Dead, or the combo.

Cherry Japanese Apricot blossoms... ... at the in-laws' this past weekend. I haven't seen cherry trees blooming around here, and th...

The leg lamp from the movie A Christmas Story is so well known, that when someone speaks of a major award , you think they're kidding. ...

The Nature Blog Network interviewed me ( here )! That first link takes you to their list of nature blogs, which numbers almost 700 now. I...

Many have risen... ... but few have budded. (Virginia Bluebells, Mertensia virginica .) Shy ones have been spotted, but their lips are seale...

Poor little stunned Chipping Sparrow ( Spizella passerina ). Birds do still occasionally fly into our windows, dirty as they are. I found a...

Squirrels have their own ideas about what makes a good stumpery . "Feeding platforms, a must-have!" This is what remains of our ol...