Found on the Trail

We have three notable hills on our home cross country course, where I sometimes walk.  They are the... the... and the... I ...

It was a bright, beautiful morning when arrived at a local park to take my walk.  I was just getting the lens cap off my camera when I heard...

There are 4 federally endangered mussels on the Mississippi.  They are the Winged Mapleleaf, Higgin's Eye Pearlymussel, Fat Pocketbook, ...

It's always exciting to be walking along a shore and find shells - whether it is an ocean beach or a river bank.  Around here, you can f...

Here's another little friend of mine - sumac. I've always liked sumac because it is easy to identify.  There's an absolute ...

Speaking of red-tailed hawks, here is a great book I found recently.  It's such an awesome book! It's the true story of off-col...

I went for a walk in one of my favorite wild spots on the river.  It was early morning, and cool out.  I had the whole place to myself, and ...

"What is that?!" I asked myself, when I came across this little structure out in the woods, a couple hundred yards from a marshy p...

Purple Violets in the spring woods. Purple was a color associated with royalty, and the wealthy - the only ones who could at f...

The halcyon days of my childhood were spent in the woods. There I explored the Mississippi, shoulder to shoulder with Marquette and Jo...

All spring I was looking for Solomon's Seal.  I would often think I saw its leaves, but I didn't feel I could be sure until there we...

I got up one morning determined to photograph some white-tailed deer.  I had seen one last fall, on the river, but had failed to get a clear...

Fat Skinny Early

Had the pleasure of coming across these mallards recently.  Here's a drake.  I like his shiny, iridescent head and yellow bill.  He was ...

Found this in the wood. The barrel buckled as the tree grew and pulled the metal band tighter. It had this label: There were ...

"It's evil!  It grows like crazy and kills other plants," said Jason, when I asked him what he knew about garlic mustard.  Yes...

Gray squirrel:  from the genus Sciurus, which is made up of two Greek words - "skia" meaning shadow, and "oura" meaning ...