Last week I was just chugging along through the work week, when I received a wrong number call. Once the caller realized who he had called, he asked, “Oh…is this Wilderness Adventure there in New Castle?” I responded yes inquisitvley. The caller turned out to be one of the new owners of Big Pine Trout [...]
Our two most common harbingers of spring, the robin and crocus, arrived ahead of the official spring date. In fact both appeared before all the snow melted. In a few days the early iris, both yellow and purple, were in full bloom.
Craig County’s climate is ideal for the hardy spring bulbs. Daffodils foliage thrived underneath [...]
Carpenter Bees
I have a small back porch, just big enough for a couple of chairs and a small table. That’s where I have my morning coffee and observe the goings on at the creek. Living in the county has introduced me to previously unobserved critters. One of them is the carpenter bee.
They’re those big, fuzzy [...]