View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Month of March Writing Third Place Winner March for my family means vanilla! We live on the edge of a tropical rainforest in southern Belize, which is...
Articles & Stories
I Am Spring
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Month of March Grand Prize In September, my family moved from WI to SC. The change was rewarding, difficult, and full of amazing discoveries as we...
Month of March Photography Third Place Winners
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Photo © Ruthann Jones. Photo © Thomas Zimmerman.
Wondernose: What plants grow up to 300 yards in length, yet cannot stand on their own?
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive This must be some sort of vine, you say, and you are correct. You are thinking of the wild grapevines that grow so profusely over the side of your garage....
March Means Maple Syrup
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Month of March Writing Third Place Winner Photo © Ethan Rocke. The oozing mud was over a foot deep, and I was stuck in the middle of it. Revving the...
Let’s Take a Hike, March 2024: Townsend’s Warbler
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Month of March Photography First Place Winner Gracefully flitting about, this lovely Townsend’s Warbler perched on a rose tree outside my window. Warblers...
Next Stop: Dauphin Island
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Dauphin Island, Alabama. Photo © George Dodd|Dreamstime.com. White sand seashores…ocean breezes…quiet pine forests…With such peaceful beauty to call its...
To Photograph An Eclipse
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Solar eclipse. Photo © Choosakdi Kabyubon|Dreamstime.com. I visualize several groups of solar eclipse observers. One group makes no effort to photograph...
Quacks and Splashes
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Waterfowl migration on the Choptank River, Cambridge, Maryland. Photo © Cheryl Shank. Surf Scoters floated beneath us on the Choptank River, their...
From the Editor’s Quill, February 2024
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Last year we did a joint contest with Lenspiration photography students titled “My March.” Categories included, “Through my lens,” “Through my brushes,”...
Out of the Ordinary
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive We were ordinary people on an ordinary day, when something extraordinary happened.It was a gray morning. As I was hanging up wash, the sudden, furious...
Wondernose: What animal has black and white stripes, uses a smelly liquid for defense, and has a name that rhymes with gorilla?
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive I know, Wondernose. You were just opening your mouth to say “skunk” when I added that last part about rhyming with gorilla. Our mystery animal is a little...
Eagle Escapades
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Immature Bald Eagle eating a salmon. Photo © cgering|iStock.com. One cold, sparkling winter morning I carefully sneaked over to the bay window so as not...
Let’s Bring Them Over!
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive It all seemed so noble, and Nicholas Pike decided to do it. Why not, when America was swarming with green canker worms, gregarious grubs, and multiple...
Majestic March
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive My March Contest Honorable Mention White-tailed deer. Photo © Oseland|Dreamstime.com. The silent pre-dawn is blotted out by densely falling snow....