We did not plant this sunflower; it seems to have come with the compost pile (a pile of manure and old hay from our farmer which we were...

The day started normally enough - I was working on cutting off casings in the hall for the upcoming tile installation and making...

Way back in February, while there was snow on the ground, we posted our plans for the year. We had plenty of rehabbing left to do, but...

Last year at this time, our grape vines were bare. This year, they look to be abundant. Not sure if the birds will get them before we...

It was a short conversation. As I was was walking to the garden, I waved to our neighbor. He asked if I had any luck finding morel...

Last year, we missed the blooming poppy's because the blooms only last a day or two. This year, I got lucky as they were blooming when I...

When we purchased the house a little over a year ago, there were 12 very tall evergreen / pine trees where there is now green grass (and...

When I woke up this morning and looked out my bedroom window; this is what I saw - Cows in the pasture right by the house. The...

This has been a poor year for morel mushrooms. Last year, we were so busy with the house that we did not have time to forage in our woods...

I never know whether to look down or to look ahead when we go for our walk in the back woods. Last weekend, I tended to look down and...

Our neighboring farmer pointed out a wild asparagus plant in our pasture; Ed had also discovered a wild asparagus plant on our fence...

This week while Ed was at the property, he bought a very small hummingbird feeder and put out some grape jelly for the Orioles. "If you...

Some days, despite best efforts, fish are hard to come by. On such days, anglers will ruefully say that is why we call it 'fishing' and...

Anglers share many characteristics. They tend to overestimate size and quantity. They will fish in conditions they will otherwise claim...

Despite the cool and dry weather, our spring wildflowers are starting to awaken. Every year the understory plants race to bloom and set...

We left the trail camera out for two weeks, and were rewarded with 936 photos. I have the camera set up to take a series of three photos...

We saw these on the ground in the backwoods; we googled them afterwards, still not certain what they are but the closest pictures I could...

In a few weeks, the native morel mushrooms will start to appear in our woods. In the meantime, we started a shiitake mushroom garden. Our...

We put the trail camera away for the winter because the batteries die too quickly in the cold. We put it out again last weekend. It was...