Bird-Friendly Gardens

I’ve been spending a lot of time in my garden in recent weeks, planting a few more shrubs and adding several…

Miles Lassiter – An Early African American Quaker

I enjoy watching a show called “Finding Your Roots” on PBS. The host
of the show is Henry Louis Gates…

The trout lilies and trilliums are in full bloom, the turkeys are strutting, the smallmouth are biting,…

I went birdwatching at the Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge a few weekends back, and while…

In North Carolina, we observe Arbor Day on the first Friday after March 15th. Got that? Can you do…

When walking in the woods it’s always a pretty site to come upon a fern valley along a stream or creek….

Though you wouldn’t know it from the freezing rain we had this week, spring is on its way….

In a book called Feral by George Monbiot, he spends some time dealing with a species some considere…

In neighborhoods like mine in Charlotte, squirrels are generally considered a nuisance. A dearth of…

While walking around in the yard the other day enjoying this unseasonably warm weather, I couldn’t…