Nature Walk: A reclining lifestyle
About a month ago a friend inquired about the identity of a common roadside plant. It swiftly grows up straight
All posts by Spider and Anita Barbour
Nature Walk: Grass, rush, sedge
Grass is simple for most people. It’s what cows and horses eat. It’s tall and slim in a field, short
Road-kill harvest
After an afternoon picture-taking trip north of Saugerties near the Hudson River we drove homeward along scenic back roads until
Nature walk: Joe Pye’s butterfly bar
Our little front pond has finally, if only partially, filled with water after this summer’s drought. The hot, dry weather
Of squirrels and crows
Just before winter our friend Vince replaced our decrepit dining room storm windows with a lovely bay window from another
Nature Walk: The year without a winter
Lately I have taken to saying that we are living in a hoax. Conservatives rightly point out that climate change
Nature Walk: Grasshoppers
Nature watchers often ask “What’s happened to such and such? I don’t see them anymore.” Usually the “such and such”