Have you noticed the cheery evergreen sprig with pearly berries, currently perched over the doorways of Yankee traditionalists and those desperate to be kissed?
One notable example is the emerald ash borer, an invasive insect easily transported in firewood, which has killed hundreds of millions of ash trees in the United States since it was introduced to Michigan from Asia in 2002.
Swift and apparently silent, a lone bat traces the contours of the woods’ edge at dusk, floating through canopy and meadow.
During a late summer walk, I noticed that the common milkweed in our back field is becoming not-so-common.
Among summer’s many sweet offerings are wild berries. And among these, blueberries are my favorite.
As spring warms the water, a turtle, covered by leaves and mud at the bottom of a wetland where she hibernated for the winter, awakens.
If you’ve never seen — or heard of — the southern bog lemming, you’re not alone.
From early spring through late summer, the air trills and croaks and buzzes and chirps with the sounds of nature’s little loudmouths. Mornings are full of birdsong; evenings are the domain of frogs and crickets.
I’d not known these flowers before we moved to this place, some 18 years ago.
On a cold November 2020 day, my daughter Lucy and I detected a strange floral scent in our woods.
Measuring only 6 inches in length and weighing less than an ounce, downy woodpeckers are the smallest of North America’s 22 native woodpecker species.
During winter, I catch glimpses of crows as they fly swiftly over our valley, cawing, or gather in small groups to feed on roadkill along the highway.
Here’s a quiz for Harry Potter fans: What kind of owl played Hedwig in the movies?
Every year my husband and I cut a Christmas tree on family land. We look for a young balsam fir growing in the power line right-of-way or in a forest clearing. Fir is our favorite type of Christmas tree because of its delightful, pungent fragrance. While … (read more)
Wilson Bentley (1865-1931) lived his entire life in Jericho, where he developed a passion for snowflakes at an early age.
