Monthly Archives: February 2009

Watching Squirrels and Crows

(for Ed Lenz….Welcome Back! We have missed you!)One week to spring break and it still feels like winter. I am sitting at my writing desk watching a cold front blast across my hillside. The bird feeders are swinging wildly in… Continue reading

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Rise of the Earthworm

All right, there are two inches of snow out there right now and this morning when I woke up the radio announced a minus four degree wind chill. Maybe I started these “Signs of Spring” too early this year. No… Continue reading

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Spring Cleaning

Strong wind gusts are a year-round occurrence up on our Penn State New Kensington ridge top. Summer thunderstorms, spring and fall weather fronts, and winter blizzards can each generate high velocity winds that can do serious damage to our trees…. Continue reading

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Our first hike

To quote George Harrison, “it’s been a long, long lonely winter.”Two weeks ago I took a dozen cub scouts out on the Nature Trail to help them work on their Forestry merit badge. It was hard staying out for even… Continue reading

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