Blue Jay Barrens

Sometimes you don’t even have to search for an interesting photographic subject.  I was lounging beneath a large cedar tree, waiting out ...

The flower head of the Wild Carrot, Daucus carota , is made up of myriad small individual flowers, each capable of yielding a single seed...

My house in Southern Ohio sits atop a small cellar that was part of an old farm house constructed in 1875.  A drain pipe runs from the ce...

This is American Bittersweet, Celastrus scandens , a native plant that is becoming increasingly rare in this area.  Thirty years ago, I us...

About two weeks ago, while sitting on the front porch cleaning my boots, I heard the unmistakable buzz of a female Pipe Organ Mud Dauber,...

My Teasel removal activities took so little time this year that I can’t even describe the activity as an event.  I spent about four hours...

I recently had an interesting encounter with an Eastern Hognose Snake. The snake had gotten itself caught in the mesh of a rat trap that ...