Last week, I described our visit to Bentonville’s Crystal Bridges Museum and my selection of Arkansas for viewing the eclipse. Crystal Bridges was a Friday night and Sunday experience. Now […]

Like many North Americans, I had my sights set on looking skyward on April 8. My initial motivation was triggered by learning that the total eclipse would follow an arc

Tiny blossoms are flowering on the spicebush in our yard. When we planted this shrub on our property about 20 years ago it thrived, so subsequently we planted others, of

In mid-March, 500 school children, all fourth graders, descended on the New Jersey Delaware Bayshore in a parade of school buses. They came to walk in the woods and to

Each spring he serenades me in gray tails, a creamy shirt, and a gray cap. His brown eyes are hopeful. He uses our courtyard as his amphitheater, where his voice

What a first weekend in March we had! People in the neighborhood were out in tee shirts; it was 63 degrees and felt like 80 degrees in the sun. The

When I think of March I think spring teaser. The Old Farmer’s Almanac describes this month as “In like a lion, out like a lamb.” In southern New Jersey it

On Cape May Point, there’s a small 13-acre lake that’s a favorite stop of mine, and I’m far from the only one. Lake Lily has a storied past that makes

Some stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. This story ends in the middle, or at least I think so. In January I received an e-mail from biologist