This week’s blog isn’t actually about a walk in the woods or along a road. It is about my bird feeder birds. They are giving me lots of pleasure as winter passes the last corner. They seem to be the most lively entertainment from nature at this time (although my...
Spanish moss hangs from a lot of trees in the southeast part of the United States. But it isn’t really moss. It is an air plant, which means that it gets all its nourishment from the air and from rainfall. Where we are vacationing here in the St. Augustine area,...
On a warm day we spotted this beautiful White Peacock Butterfly on our walk along the Indian River in Florida. These butterflies range from as far south as Argentina to the Carolinas in the U.S. That is why I have never seen one in Wisconsin or West Virginia. The...
My family gathered in Florida for the holidays to enjoy the balmy weather. Our dogs tumbled all over each other as we walked together down the sidewalk between a busy residential street and the Indian River on the East coast of Florida. We found a fat caterpillar with...
Recently I walked down to our children’s playground here in West Virginia, where there is a small patch of trees, a bookhouse and some play equipment. Last year the area behind the playground was full of trees. It was a rural woodland. Trees covered about 10 acres...
My daughter and I have been walking most December days on a farm in Kearneysville, located in the easternmost county of West Virginia, it is only about 65 miles from Washington, D.C. There is a lovely little brook that gurgles through our favorite corner of the hay...
