Monthly Archives: January 2016

Three years ago in my January 21, 2013 blog (very optimistically entitled “Signs of Spring 3”) I wrote about Groundhog Day and suggested that we change this early February day-of-prediction to focus not on an animal that is sound asleep … Continue reading →

It was a cold, clear, sunny afternoon at the end of the first week of January. Deborah and I had the day to ourselves and decided to go for a short walk up at Harrison Hills Park. We had heard … Continue reading →

I finally did rake up my leaves this fall. Instead of bagging or burning them, though, I worked them into piles along the natural topographic lines of the yard. So, under the north line of crabapple trees, under the bisecting … Continue reading →

I have talked about biodiversity before. In fact, a couple of years ago I included a biodiversity quiz in one of my weekly blogs. For the past twenty years Deborah and I have been studying and describing the biodiversity of … Continue reading →