Monthly Archives: November 2015

It’s a Sunday afternoon in early November, and I am sitting at one of my favorite spots in all of Western Pennsylvania (my writing desk) looking out a large picture window into my back yard. The sky is blue and … Continue reading →

(Here is a posting from five years ago. I heard a Great Horned Owl the other evening and remembered this encounter. It seems like a good way to start our search for winter! Enjoy!) This morning I looked out my … Continue reading →

Weekend before last we changed back over to Standard Time. The “fall behind” change in our clocks does nothing to alter the total amount of daylight we get in a day, but it does change our perceptions of lengths of … Continue reading →

I know that “Caffeine” is a funny title for an ecology blog, but I will, eventually, get to my ecological point about it. Caffeine is, of course, the active chemical (OK, let’s be honest here, the “drug”) that makes tea … Continue reading →