Just got home from working on the house and decided to check the minnow trap I had set in the creek (pronounced crick here in PA) about 2 weeks ago, and to my surprise there were about 2 dozen in it. So I put them in a bucket of water and went up [...]
The first 3 pictures shown here are from last evening. These 3 jakes were out picking through the freshly plowed cornfield. For those who may not know, a jake is a young male wild turkey. I have been seeing turkey out just about every evening the past couple of weeks. Sometimes [...]
Spring is upon us. It was actually hot enough yesterday to get a sunburn.
As you can see from this picture, the heat just means its time to get out and get the work done. That grass will need weedwacked every couple of weeks beginning probably next week.
These wild onions have actually been growing [...]
As I write this I am sitting outside enjoying the nice weather. It’s a little breezy, but otherwise its a beautiful spring day. I took a short hike and heard a turkey gobble rounding up his hens while I was in the woods. Here is a picture of the leaves all torn [...]
I received an email today from David Masur over at Penn Environment asking me to write my state senator to support House Bill 1281, the Pennsylvania Appalachian Trail Act. It seems that the trail in our state is being threatened by expanding development. According to Penn Environment :
One of Pennsylvania’s [...]
I’ll start this post with 2 of my nicest pictures. To me, these 2 pictures define what I thought the “country life” was all about when I still lived in the city. The views around here never fail to amaze me! Sometimes I wonder how I ever lived in the city [...]
Has been a while since I posted… I need to find time and ideas for more posts. For now here is a picture taken about 200 yards from my house.
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Haven’t had a lot of time to write lately, so I decided I’d put up a post with some pictures of this past summer. It sure is nice seeing everything all green
These are the “twins” at the farm this summer. I think there were actually 3 sets of twins there this [...]
