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While out cutting grass (and weeds) today we saw what we think is the first monarch of the year. It may have been a viceroy, all we caught w...

Our interest in myths and folklore has returned and been growing over the past few years. Aesop has a tale which we believe is highly releva...

Happy Valentine's Day. In addition to flowers and candy and cards and poems and all that stuff, some of us were lucky enough to be able ...

Several times this past week, I've wondered why some local farm fields had such tall lumps of soil. Each time those soil lumps moved and...

Yesterday I hiked out to the wetland to our west to check the status of skunk cabbage. As you can see, from the two purple splotches [uppe...

I hope you had a great Earth Day yesterday. Today we've made it to day 23 of National Poetry Month. On day 22, there was a bluebird si...

© harrington Yes, Virginia, there is open water. Hi! Thanks for stopping by. The photo was taken this afternoon just up the road. The ...