Giant clam. Photo © Dreamstime.com. Mind you, Wondernose, not all the animals of this kind weigh a quarter of a ton. They can vary in size from a fraction of an inch to four feet across.But how, you...
2022
Glimpses of Pond Life
Water Workshop 2nd Place Sandhill Cranes. Photo © Dreamstime.com. “Let’s do this project.”We all agreed. What better time than now, with a pair of Sandhill Cranes nesting in our marshy pond?...
Mailbox, August 2022: Attracting Birds
Which Bug Bites?
Water Workshop 1st Place Caddisfly larva. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. Beep, beep, beep. At 5:00 in the morning, the persistent beeping of the alarm clock awakened me from a deep sleep. Oh, yes! I...
You Can Draw a Rose-breasted Grosbeak Submissions
You Can Draw a Blackburnian Warbler
English Class Was “For the Birds”
Spring Migration Bird Contest Grand Prize It is a typical Monday morning at work in mid-May. The weather has finally dried out following the wettest April on record, and the sun is trying to peak...
Birding Along the Linville Creek
Spring Migration Bird Contest Second Place Linville Creek. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. The clock read 11:30 a.m. I was curled up on the couch flipping through the latest issue of Nature Friend, when the...
The Day and the Crown
Spring Migration Bird Contest 1st Place
August 2022, End of the Trail: Northern Parula
Male Northern Parula. Photo © Alva Steury Jr.
Study Guide Puzzles, August 2022
Warm Season Cover Crops
Sunn hemp. Photo © Dreamstime.com. One of the most important rules of gardening is to always be gardening. That doesn’t mean we need to keep ourselves in the garden every working day planting,...
Camp & Cabin Cookin’, August 2022
Recipes: Banana Peach Oatmeal, Spanish Rice. Recipes: Sour Cream Raisin Squares, Summer Day Smoothie.
Capturing Flying Flash Butterflies
Meadow fritillaries and Queen Anne's lace. Photo © Steven Russell Smith. If you are like me, butterflies were the inspiration and springboard for your pursuit of serious photography. Through the...
