We spent the weekend at the Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham. Friday we roamed the park scoping out the different viewing spots, before...

Happy Goo Day! I was mistaken in thinking that I'd already missed Orange Goo Day this year... That is, the day the Cedar-Apple Rust and ...

Some recent game cam photos: A sleek bobcat (Lynx rufus) . Murphy's law of game cameras: You get mostly southern views of northbound ani...

Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) . The bloodroots are almost two weeks late this year, due to cold weather. I haven't tackled moss ide...

The meteorologist was right Friday morning, when she described the coming weather: finally wonderful! Wildflowers are popping up everywhere....

We see this lichen here all the time, only usually without quite so many things on it. The technical name for the things is apothecia. If t...

Pileated woodpeckers wuz here... Dryocopus pileatus calling card. This fallen log is along the path that I've been taking to scout wild...

Here's a recent game camera shot of a reddish coyote. I still haven't managed to get a better photo of the suspected melanistic (bla...

During a previous set-up at Cottontails My first spring craft show will be Cottontails next weekend. I'll be in normal chicken-with-hea...

Sure, lots of people have boats on the river, or boats at the lake. If you want to be really trendy, try a boat in the woods. It doesn't...

When they had all gathered together, the cat was completely silent, and some speculated that perhaps he had fallen asleep. The cat slowly op...

It was warm! It was dry! Very unusual for our winter this year. I was afraid we'd missed the bluebells coming up, since last year by th...

Around the time I wrote my last post, my mother-in-law became sick. She died before the new year. I've wanted to talk about this, but ev...

Seen on a bin at a library. A local University library. How proud this makes me of my diploma.