April showers bring the flowers but May rain knocks them down again (I just made that second bit up).  Actually, it’s no secret that we had an unusually wet May in the North Carolina mountains.  For a while the weather … Continue reading →

By all measures this has been an unusual fall leaf-peeping season.  The warm dry summer has affected the usually predictable progression of fall colors which normally starts in the high peaks and descends to the valleys.  Instead this year we … Continue reading →

Back in June I wrote about our unexpected visitors, a pair of Carolina chickadees who had made their nest and were raising a brood of noisy chicks in what we thought was an ornamental bird box.    We had named them … Continue reading →