At a neighborhood barbecue recently, I wanted to prepare the Solo Stove for the night-time "mini bonfire" ahead. I started gathering some kindling and smaller wood from a nearby woodpile when my eyes…

Just caught a mosquito, mid-air. This was not a capture-and-release exercise. Photo source.  

Spring in Maryland: it's like this most years, is it not? this First, it's cool as we transition from winter into spring. It rains sometimes; it's sunny and near-perfect other times; the world…

It does not matter whether the cherry blossoms and first wave of spring flowers come early in the season or late. It does not matter whether a particular spring is wet and cool…

Well, this certainly wasn't anything I was expecting to see upon coming home this afternoon. bear witness to the journey Poor little thing must have traversed earlier today rather hot asphalt, then it…

I‘ve been noticing more of my hair these past few days. Not the hair ON my head, but the hair FROM my head that’s now on the bathroom counter, on my clothes, even,…

How did I go from wearing a cashmere top, wool socks and boots but a few days ago to, now, sweating in a tank top, light summer skirt and bare feet? Then the weather…

It’s deep in winter and my hands are soft and smooth. My cuticles? Them too. No dry, cracked skin. No flaking itchy skin. No hard, dry cuticles that creep up each year as…

I wondered, a couple weeks back, how “the birds” emptied my bird feeder in one fell swoop. In less than 24 hours. Went from full to not full. I was pretty sure it wasn’t…

I saw two owls in two days: one Friday night and one Saturday evening! And I saw them in completely different locations. I occasionally hear owls (especially the bard owls), but this past weekend,…

This past mid-October, I’ve had a daily afternoon visitor: this rib-cage showing, adult female deer who — and I’ve witnessed it — is still nursing two larger fawn. There’s an oak tree in my…