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My wife and I live on a quarter acre lot in the East End of Williamsport. Like all neighborhoods, there are lawn mowers, leaf blowers and kids playing, but ot

My son Dan used to look at me with a cute grin on his face and say “Mom, slow down, Turbo!” It became a little private joke, and all I had to do was give him the side eye and we would both laugh. But these days, in retrospect, I am realizing it wasn’t a […]

“If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe. — Evelyn Waugh The middle of July is pure summer — lazy sum

This rain! Every few years we get one of these wet summers. The world is green and lush. Some of the garden flowers love this weather (zinnias don’t). I love

As I write this, the sun is just coming up over Spread Eagle Mountain in Keene Valley. It is right around the time of the summer solstice, so sunrise comes very

Well, I guess the verdict is in: Winter is over. Just don’t say it out loud. Hard to tell when winter is over around here, I know. You can’t trust the pl

As the dust settles on another Mass Audubon Bird-a-thon weekend, it’s time to catch up with all that went down.

Back in the fall I covered the annual “winter finch forecast”, where a network of biologists across the northern forests put together their best guesses for what northern songbirds will be doing this winter.