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).…

Yesterday on the blue false indigo (Baptisia australis) plants I saw this pretty caterpillar. I had left my camera at my parents’ house over the…

First, a plant we love is in bloom right now. Half of its name—butterfly weed—is unfortunate, as it is not a weed at all. At…