Monthly Archives: July 2015

Over the past few years I have written three or four essays about monarch butterflies and emphasized their dependence upon milkweed plants. The various species of milkweed that grow across North America are the only plants on which the monarch … Continue reading →

(continuing last week’s discussion of our nature walk in the suburbs): Around many of the houses up and down these suburban streets are a variety of primarily solitary trees. Houses of styles that were built in the 1950’s or 1960’s … Continue reading →

Nature walks can be taken in the woods, across open meadows, or along river or lake or ocean shorelines. You can also take nature walks along suburban streets. Deborah and I took a stroll around a nearby suburban neighborhood to … Continue reading →

I got an email a couple of weeks ago from Karen Harlan at Penn State New Kensington asking me about a deer tick “imposter.” She had heard about a small, soft bodied (“squishable,” was the way she phrased it, stressing … Continue reading →

It is a cool, breezy day today, and I am very happy to have been able to turn the air conditioning off (with an acknowledgment that I REALLY appreciated it during all of the recent days of high humidity and … Continue reading →