Walking on a path through black lava, I stopped to look at a fern, the ae fern. These small Polypodiums pushed up through the five-year-old smooth,...
The little dogs and I went for a hike yesterday. We go hiking most days, but this one was different. I had been feeling tense and distracted from...
“Let’s wade out here. I feel sure we’ll find some Isoetes away from shore.” our instructor, botanist Robbin Moran said joyfully as we followed him...
Sitting on a grassy patch where the clean tea-colored water begins, the lake is flat, calm, wide, the color of blue pewter, the morning sun just...
I love to go hiking. I’m always game for a walk in the woods. There are so many ferns and flowers and mosses and rocks to identify and so many...
The conservation commission in Strafford has been leading a series of community hikes this spring, exploring our natural communities. Somebody will...
Folks living anywhere near the town borders of Strafford have long been aware that Coburn’s General Store is our social hub. When the virus stopped...
February has been an icy month, a challenge for those who count on skiing the powder and harder on those already unsteady on their feet. Perhaps...
There is a term in ecology used to describe the sharing of scarce resources by various species. This survival strategy, resource partitioning...
Walking home from a conservation meeting a few nights ago, my headlamp shone upon two pairs of orange glowing lights. Thinking I had come upon a...
It came down through the night — the first snowfall this winter, and everything changed — the way the dogs ran across the yard barking at snow...
The LBDs (little brown dogs), Mookie the cat of great fur, and I are jostling for position on the daybed as I try to write. Balancing a laptop on...