Pucker Up
Many years ago, when the Campbell family had a salt hay farm in Dennis Township on Stimpson Island Rd., my husband and I use to visit them. Young George Campbell
The Great Outdoors
Kiss and Tell
As a child growing up in Cresskill, New Jersey, I lived in a small Cape Cod-style house with two dormer windows. It was a very modest home with a central
Bird Sensibility
My Christmas gift suggestion to you is a book. I’ve been paging through and reading sections of David’s Sibley’s newest book, What It’s Like to Be a Bird. He begins
Pass the Sauce
I’m a fan of Thanksgiving with all the trappings, everything from giving thanks to pumpkin pie, and yes, with whipped cream! But clearly one of New Jersey’s top contributions to
The Wild Ones
Each spring for 32 years I have been hunting wild turkeys. And every spring a few turkeys will make a turkey out of me; some would say that is not
A Thanksgiving Tail
In anticipation of the upcoming holiday I’ve decided to talk about one of our most common fungi, turkey tail, a shelf or bracket fungus. Its name comes from the concentric
What Lies Beneath
With the dampness of fall comes a crop of wild mushrooms in many shapes, colors, and sizes. Mycophagists, people who hunt for edible mushrooms, are exploring the woods for their
More Black Magic
We left off last week with biologist and herpetologist Professor Howard Reinert, of the College of New Jersey, who once told me about the unique anatomy of the black snake
Bit of Black Magic
When we built our home some 37 years ago it would seem that we either displaced or created some desirable real-estate for a few local denizens who began to haunt
The Wood Warblers
They have names that evoke their appearance, like the chestnut-sided, black-throated green, or yellow-throated. Or names that describe where they may have been first identified like Tennessee, Cape May, or
