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New USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
This week the USDA Agricultural Research Service released its new Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Strangely, I discovered this, not through the agriculture and gardening sites I follow, but through Mother...
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Sewing Without Shopping
I’m caught up with posting about 2011 fiber activities. These patchwork pieces are my current project–a double four-patch wool coverlet. So far, I have 72 eight-inch blocks, sewn together into two...
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The Early Grasshopper Catches the Radish
Garden seeds came in the mail today, and, because the ground is bare and workable, I raked some damp soil loose and planted beets and radishes. That’s where I found this guy. This is shockingly early...
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Pre-Dawn Visitor
This gray fox visited late last night, but didn’t come closer to the camera this time. Just before dawn, this much larger guy showed up. Coyote?
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More Fox From the Trail Camera, and an Owl Too
Here are some better pictures of one of our fox visitors. A barred owl has been a regular visitor to the deer carcass for several weeks. During the day, titmice, bluebirds, downy woodpeckers, ravens,...
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Ravens at Dawn
The ravens have visited us regularly all winter. This isn’t surprising, but this is the first year they’ve spent so much time here since we started spending time here. We’ve had bluebirds all winter,...
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Early Lettuce–Cute Cotyledons
I planted a little patch of lettuce in early February. Most years, such early plantings are unsuccessful–they sprout and freeze, or get washed away in heavy rain, or they mold. This year, the rain did...
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Latest Bigfoot Sighting on Droop Mountain (Or Is It the Mothman?)
Our game camera pictures have been plentiful, and much alike. These deer visit regularly. However, Monday morning, the camera caught this: Seconds later, whatever it was, it was gone. Was it a bear...
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Bigfoot Enigma Solved
I think this is the solution to our Bigfoot game camera puzzle. Our cherries are ripe, and along with foxes, scarlet tanagers, raccoons, ravens, possums, cedar waxwings, and orchard orioles, bears are...
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How the Camera Got Knocked Down
We went to the first annual Highland County Old Time Fiddlers’ Convention last weekend, and left our cherry trees unattended. When we got home, we found the trail camera dangling upside down from its...
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