While it is not quite yet my birthday, it probably will be by the time I finish this and get it posted. Hard to believe but this one is 65…

I warned you in my very first post (The First Step) that I had no idea where my ruminative roaming would lead. And for the better part of a year,…

Sorry for disappearing for a few days dear reader; ‘tis the busy time of year and I became overtaken with Christmas preparations, along with other odds and ends. I’ve also…

The November woods – and December to some extent – are as close to monochromatic you’ll ever find in the forest; it pretty much a vast compilation of shades of…

Well, over a week since election day and there is still great uncertainty among a huge portion of our populace over who won. It cannot be formal until each state…

I’ve found three baby snapping turtles in the yard in the last week, in different places at separate times. Each was moving along at a steady pace (for a baby…

I am back to hiking at least partially regularly, until either the well-touted news media “surge” or “2nd round” of the virus actually occurs and we have to hunker down…

It is an amazing scene unfolding here in our country – well, at least in my life, in my perspective anyway. The virus continues to make daily headlines, as it…

The other day in the yard, my wife yelled out to me: “snake”!! I ran over to have a look and there near the steps up to the back of…