I was thinking about random things the other day, you know how you do, when washing the dishes or some other repetitive task where the mind ...

It's that time of year again!  Love is in the air and "hearts" are all around. This has been a long, cold winter and...

Today was Day 9 of the government shutdown which has (among various other things) officially closed all 401 units of the National Park Syste...

Our garden is doing well!  Today I harvested a heaping handful of pole beans and cooked them up with onions and sweet corn.  Came out very t...

Bird babies!! In the middle of the Clinch River, on the island near the weir dam, there is a Great Blue Heron nest we've been watching ...

I found a big, beautiful moth on our garage door just before we went camping, and coincidentally while we were in the campground there was a...