Here’s a native shrub that we love: buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidenatalis). Here, the clusters of fruit are forming where the balls of white flowers have finished.…

If you see white fuzzy clumps on alder twigs this fall, look closely and you will also see ants. The white fuzzy critters are scale…

I’ve written before about a book by Penn professor Witold Rybczynski: Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville (Real Estate Development in America from…

Here’s a photo of a sedge, Carex intumescens, with a small spider on it. Species identification of sedges is not a place I normally go but…

Now that summer is ending I am finally getting around to compiling data that was gathered at the beginning of the season. On June 9…

In addition to spending some time on the beach this summer with a good old-fashioned paperback novel, I read some nonfiction related to my interests…

This twelve-spotted skimmer dragonfly (Libellula pulchella) paused in our goat pasture at Crow’s Nest: And here is an unusual sunset from last Friday night: It…

There’s still a little bit of nesting going on out there. This cardinal is nesting right under our kitchen window in the winterberry holly bush:…

This year there are tons of cottony, white masses on the stems of plants, from trees and shrubs to wildflowers. I don’t know if it…

It’s been a long time since we’ve had a television, and I have to say I don’t miss it much (we do have internet, however).…