At Crow’s Nest Preserve wild geranium (Geranium maculatum) and showy orchis (Galearis spectabilis) are in bloom; you can see them along the Deep Woods Trail.…

Hope you get out and enjoy the outdoors today! And if it’s raining, bring an umbrella. The rain is welcome.

We use rags and newspaper to clean parts and tools and prevent messes in the workshop (you saw the post below about the tractor, right?).…

At this spring’s sessions of WebWalkers, WebWanderers, and WebWigglers we are looking at tracks and scat. Perhaps because of the lack of rain there are…

…make one whole tractor (when they’re put back together). Roger Nichols came up to visit us from ChesLen Preserve on Tuesday to split our tractor…

It has been an unusual experience of an extremely dry spell this spring, following the wettest year on record (which also had a dry spell…