Du ring my winter travels, my companion book is Winter World; The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich.  I am just going to quote...

There is such a feeling of excitement when seeing an animal in the wild.  ANY animal.  Even a little chipmunk.  I always consider San Anton...

On New Year's Eve, 2009, earthlings experienced an "astronomical phenomenon" - a blue moon. As dawn approached, I found myse...

Of all the herbs and wildflowers used for medicial purposes, Echinacea purpurea is, in my humble opinion,  the most effective modern day nat...

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A recent outing along the mostly dried bed of Cibolo Creek just outside of San Antonio didn't yield many birds of note, but a few intere...

I never wondered where mistletoe came from.  Mistletoe was just mistletoe.  You brought it out at Christmas time, and tucked it away for the...