Moths and kitties

A big crowd turned out at The Book Revue for the presentation of Olivia's Birds Saving the Gulf . After her talk Olivia took questions a...

As in proof of squirrel not squirrel deterrent. I have been waiting patiently since fall for the return of the vanishing squirrel , this bre...

Whatever shall we do with Rocky? I hope he/she's not another distemper case .

After this blew in I thought we might have lost a few branches, but it was a little bit more than that... the tree top. all 15' of it c...

A plan to take breakfast at Northport Harbor, NY goes horribly awry... There might have been other shots, many whirling birds, much fla...

When Long Island schoolgirl Olivia Bouler heard about the Gulf oil disaster she set out to help and she did it big time raising over $175,0...

We changed our plans and extended the vacation another day so we could go out on the water That proved to be a great idea Because wherever w...

11-Year-Old Draws for Gulf Relief . Anyone who doubts the impact that ordinary people can have should click the above link to see the interv...

It's seems odd to me that some people blame natural disasters on other people's lifestyle - or even their dress - and point to this ...

So there I was, admiring the recent hosta growth spurt while waiting for the carpenter to give me an update on the mud room door delivery, w...

Alien life form? Back view of a Great Owl? Chewbacca headpiece? Monstrous apparition? Alerted by a thwick, thwick noise, the sound of someth...

While the rest of the country is enjoying the first week of Spring, the north-east is stuck in some sort of permanently frosty winter: icy b...

Temperatures have soared into the 30s this morning, the biting wind has died down and my fluey cold has improved to the point where I can go...

Snake! Snake! It's a snake . OK, it' s a dead snake, but I have never seen any sort of snake this far north before. I know we hav...

I wrote about this guy/gal scaring me last year but today's encounter was even closer. I was driving down the road when this thing swoo...

It looks like we have an outbreak of distemper in the local raccoon population. On Sunday our next door neighbors called to say they had a ...

A weekend saga in two parts. Part One: Saturday 7 AM. We were lying in bed and the dogs were going totally beserk. Woof, woof, bark, bark, b...