Remains of the Day

So much has happened this month! The babies turned 16 and 16 and 20, which is...like...I don't even know what to think about having a 20...

Yesterday the sun rose red in a smudgy sky, a result of the wildfires burning 2,500 miles away. The meteorology nerd inside of me is fascina...

I've been working on two writing projects this summer—both of which involve deep dives into research, one in my own personal records, jo...

Naturalists are, by definition, generalists, but many, if not most, have a particular area of interest about which they are most knowledgeab...

We had a quiet weekend, the last one with nothing scheduled for the foreseeable future. E and Z had a friend over Friday night and, after we...

There is so much going on in the natural world this time of year it's hard to take it all in. Birds! Flowers! Frogs! Bugs! I don't ...

The butterflies loved the summery weekend as much as we did. One of our black swallowtails ( Papilio polixenes ) emerged.  ...

I found myself home alone for a short while Sunday afternoon. It was too cool out to read in the hammock, and when I tried to work on a wri...

It's important to go to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in June, because Lady's Slippers. More grow there than anywhere I...