Guess who I saw this afternoon!   Click on the arrow to watch a short video (1:20) of a furry visitor that I happened to spy as he wan...

I noticed it early one morning as I looked out the window: A large tan-colored critter with a smug grin peering out from the hole of a previ...

As I rounded the bend toward home, a flock of bluebirds appeared. I thought they might. Bluebirds seem to like my neighbor’s pastur...

Eaten any hemp lately? I have — for lunch. I sprinkled hemp hearts, which are raw, shelled hemp seeds, on top of a sweet potato. It was deli...

Another pasture bites the dust. Over the past couple years, development where I live in south Lake County has increased dramatically. New ...

I never get tired of photographing bluebirds.  There's something especially endearing about their bright-colored plumage, sweet expressi...

Our triploid grass carp must be happy. All the rain we had in December made lake levels rise, submerging stretches of grassy shoreline i...

I'm sitting in the kitchen reading. A coyote wanders by. Fortunately, my camera is close at hand. Unfortunately, the coyote moves ...

Last week’s column ( Sometimes found treasures are best left in place ) about the small urn-shaped nest I found in a wax myrtle tree, genera...

When I'm rowing through shallow water along the edge of the lake, I'm careful to avoid disturbing wetland plants like pickerel weed,...

In June when one of our tenants moved away, he left behind a large container filled with Christmas cactus.  I took the container home and s...

After doing an errand this morning, I took the long way home through back roads in Howey-in-the-Hills.  The road I took rambles through a ru...