View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Bird's-foot trefoil. Photo © Klaus Reitmeier|Dreamstime.com. Every time I have gone away in the summer has been a wildflower drive for me all the years we...
Articles & Stories
Exploring Nature, April 2024
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Just as farmers are hoping the spring dries up enough to get into the fields to mow hay, morel hunters are hoping for alternating rain and sunshine to...
Building a Stone Cottage Bird Feeder
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Bird Feeder Contest Grand Prize Winner
The Native Wildflower Garden
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Why,” you ask, “would I want to include native spring ephemerals in my wildflower garden?”Well, in my experience, these wildflowers are much more than...
Cancer
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Cancer, the Crab, is a mid-sized constellation that lies just east of Gemini and just west of Leo. Cancer is made up solely of dim stars, and its shape is...
Photographing Owls in Flight
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Eastern Screech-Owl catching a mouse. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. Only a few minutes had passed, and already a screech owl had flown over our setup. From their...
End of the Trail, April 2024: American Robin
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive American Robin in flowering dogwood. Artwork © Anna Boggs.
Growing Great Strawberries
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Strawberries are a great crop for beginning fruit growers. Unlike growing trees and bushes, if you make a mistake with strawberries, you can quickly start...
Gemini
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive M35 and NGC 2158. Photo © Scott Rosen. Gemini, the twins, lies northeast of Orion along the band of the Milky Way. The most obvious part of Gemini is the...
Log Cabin Bird Feeder
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Bird Feeder Contest First Place Winner Here are the instructions and photos of the bird feeder that my brother Jeffery Schrock built for your contest....
In Our Skies, March 2024
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive March 14 Pleiades is very close to the moon—less than 2 degrees.March 24 Mercury is at its greatest eastern elongation from the Sun. Look for it low in...
The Ruler of the Night
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive The Moon definitely gets our attention as the ruler of the night. It overrules the dimmer sky objects when it comes out in full brightness. It also rules...
Exploring Nature, March 2024
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Woodcocks are doing their courtship displays. Listen for their loud peenting or beeping at dusk on warm evenings. Grizzlies come out of hibernation in mid...
Of Drama and Promise
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Month of March Writing First Place Winner Photo © Photomailbox|Dreamstime.com. The creek in our north pasture has experienced many seasons. It has...
It’s March
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Month of March Writing Second Place Winner Softly stealing from its shelter,Skipping over hill and vale,Comes the Lamb of Spring-like splendor,Chasing out...