The Joyce Road Neighborhood

A major snow storm struck the east coast this weekend, but came short of hitting northern PA and Joyce Road. While some of the major cit...

Our granddaughter, Myra, is now 5 months old and we traveled to Iowa last week to visit her and her parents, Chuck and Nikki. Myra is...

It's now the second week of January and the big question is "where is the snow"? We haven't had any measurable snowfa...

It wasn't a partridge in a pear tree, from the song "Twelve Days of Christmas", but a grouse in an Autumn olive tree. Overn...

With east coast temperatures setting record highs in the 50' and 60's, this year's "White Christmas" was caused by fog...

The winter solstice was earlier this week (Dec. 22nd) and we are officially in Winter, but the temperatures are in the 50's and 60's...

Our recent travels were to a palace in Bavaria ... Castles on the Danube ... and a brewery in Bohemia where pilsner beer originated....

While looking for the elusive Odocoileus virginianus ( ♂ ) , I came across a small patch of Princess Pine ( Lycopodium obscurum ), also kno...

While December 1st marked the start of meteorological winter, the afternoon temperature on Saturday was in the mid 40's but the overnigh...

It was a damp, rainy, foggy day. The day started off foggy and in between rain showers the fog would roll in/out. Now you see our barn ... ...

Today is the start of the Pennsylvania (Rifle) deer season, which is somewhat a statewide holiday. For the past few days following Thanksgiv...

It's almost the end of November and ice is starting to form on the local ponds, but a Blue Heron is still hanging around the pond at our...

After one of the warmest Novembers on record, we've had couple of cold mornings and ice is forming on Miner's Pond as some snowflake...

For the second time this Autumn a bear has attacked one of my apple trees. This time the bear didn't knock the tree over, but shook the ...

I continue to add to my list of edible mushrooms that are found on our property. With help from our son Chuck on identifying mushrooms, I wa...