The Joyce Road Neighborhood

We are half way through Winter and a warm wood stove helps relieve the chill of  the cold days of February. Not only is February a good time...

Was "Punxsutawney Phil" correct with this year's prediction of an early Spring? I found these daffodils sprouting next to our ...

It's not unusual to find  Woolly Bear Caterpillars ( Pyrrharctia isabella ) scurrying around in the fall, but within the past week I...

The clean white snow-cover from the Christmas snowstorm  is starting to turn light gray  as we progress into Winter and most of the leafless...

We've had a few dustings of snow this Fall/Winter season, but this is the first "plow-able" snowfall in almost 2 years. ...

I needed to thin out some of the white pine trees on our cabin property and the Hopkins family was able to select a Christmas tree. Bri...

When most people think of a "White Christmas" they think of the  1954  musical film  starring  Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, but ...

With Thanksgiving over and the fall turkey season closed, this flock of turkeys was taking it easy and enjoying the mild December weather. ...

Q . Why did the grouse cross the road? A . To get to the other side of the road. We were driving on Joyce Road, between our barn property...

Matt and I were checking out a hunting spot on our property for tomorrow's start of rifled deer hunting in Pennsylvania when we were app...

Earlier in the year I was able to find skunks everywhere in the neighborhood and then they disappeared overnight. It looks like at least one...

In a recent posting I described the white-tailed deer's breeding season, known as the "rut" and how the bucks are looking for...

Google Maps has updated the aerial view of the Rome area again this year with an image that was taken sometime in September. This image show...

On our way home from voting we noticed a buck deer wandering back and forth in the road,  not paying any attention to our truck. It is the w...

You may have noticed the lack of updates on this blog for the last month ... We've been on vacation and out of the country. This vacat...