A Plethora of Mushrooms
The combination of damp weather and a new mulching of wood chips created a massive crop of mushrooms around and underneath our hostas. We knew there were a lot of mushrooms because they were beginning...
View ArticleA Prickly Situation
After years and years of no porcupines, this fall we kept seeing two... a smaller female and a very large male. Usually they would be waddling around in the meadow. We would see them drinking out of...
View ArticleA Sitting Duck and a Noisy FedEx Delivery
We had a few minutes of minor excitement here yesterday morning when the FedEx delivery person bent down to leave a package, suddenly jumped back and screamed. Obviously she wasn't expecting to see a...
View ArticleEastern American Toad (Bufo americanus americanus)
The Eastern American toad (Bufo americanus americanus... bufo is Latin for toad) is usually some shade of brown, but colors can vary from olive to tan to gray to red and can change depending on the...
View ArticleWhat Are the Odds?
There is a wild apple tree at the edge of our meadow... Sometime during last night, an apple fell off the tree and landed "just right" onto one of these sharp, pointed, broken-off stubs. The apple is...
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