The Joyce Road Neighborhood

Last week the vernal equinox marked the official start of astronomical spring and some of the animals in the neighborhood have "spring ...

It was our pleasure to babysit our granddaughter, Myra, for the past week while her mother, Nikki, was attending a military conference in Wa...

The early spring wildflowers are starting to appear and today I spotted some bright yellow flowers along Joyce Road. At first I thought it w...

The signs of spring can be seen and heard throughout the neighborhood. The annual chorus of the Wood Frogs ( Lithobates sylvaticus ) and pe...

I was checking Wysox Creek today and found this small flock of common mergansers ( Mergus merganser ) swimming next to the bridge. These fi...

I often look downstream from the Wysox Creek bridge to see if any ducks are in the water and was surprised to see a Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus l...

This week's warm weather has the Crocus blooming and the Honey Bees busy. Crocus are some of the first flowers of spring and add som...

The warm weather this week prompted me to clean out the Blue Bird houses along the road to our cabin. The bird houses were packed full o...

It's the first week of March and the temperature climbed to 63°F today. The warm weather had the honey bees out looking for food, but wi...

Still no major snow here, but there was enough of a dusting to add some color to the Holly bush at our house. By the afternoon the snow was ...

There hasn't been a lot of animal activity in the neighborhood this winter or maybe it's been harder to spot and track the animals w...

Some Canada Geese have returned to Miner's Pond and are looking for nesting sites. The geese returned to the pond as soon as the first ...

While major snow storms hit the east coast this winter, we continue to have bare ground. The snow storms have been traveling to the south an...

There isn't much happening in the neighborhood this time of year so we took a trip to the warmer weather in Havana, Cuba. Travel to Cu...

It's now February and we've had very little snow in this neighborhood. While the short term effects of the lack of snowfall make tra...