Monthly Archives: August 2021

(Click for audio… Dog Day Cicadas I was taking my dog Izzy on an evening walk a few weeks ago when I heard a very familiar “sound of summer” that I used to follow closely back in Western Pennsylvania. It … Continue reading →

Click for audio …. Glacier National Park I last visited Glacier National Park in July, 1975. I was on a seven week-long drive up the Rocky Mountains that had started in New Mexico in late June and would finish in … Continue reading →

(Click on link to listen to an audio version of this blog: My weeds, The Good! Last week I talked about a few really bad weeds growing in our developing, front yard prairie. There are also some weeds in our … Continue reading →

Click for audio: Weeds, the bad We have been trying to wrestle a patch of cleared ground in the front of our house into a shortgrass prairie, but, along the way, we (and our little patch of prairie) have been … Continue reading →