The Joyce Road Neighborhood

For most of this summer there were very few turkeys in the neighborhood but a large flock of turkeys has returned for the fall (and hopefull...

I was driving down Joyce Road and noticed a Turkey Vulture ( Cathartes aura ) on top of a utility pole in a spread-winged stance known as a...

I was walking around a corn field on our property when I found a wildflower I hadn't seen before. I did a little research on the Interne...

The weather is getting cooler and its time to harvest some of the vegetables I planted last spring. I planted 7 or 8 butternut squash plants...

Walking along the road on our cabin property it is easy to find the invasive wild morning glory know as Hedge Bindweed (Calystegia sepium). ...

I was driving around our cabin property today, checking on the wildlife food plots, when I noticed something strange with one of the apple t...

Our new grandson, Evan Reed Beebe was born on Saturday September 17th at 1:12AM. Evan weighed in at 7 lbs 5oz. and is 19 inches long. This...

I was digging potatoes in my garden when I came across this large caterpillar and I needed an excuse to stop digging for a while. This is th...

Most years I'm lucky to find one or two praying mantises but I've already found 5 or 6. This one is a pregnant female European M...

While I was mowing along the driveway to our cabin on Tuesday when I looked up and thought we were under attack. Three large USAF C-17 Globe...

As I drove by my neighbor's house on my tractor I noticed some Bald Faced Hornet's ( Dolichovespula maculata ) were rebuilding a ne...

As we head into Autumn the days are getting shorter, the nights are getting cooler and the deer in the neighborhood are shedding their reddi...

We got a phone call from one of our neighbors that they had a "bee's nest" in a tree by their house and next to Joyce Road. Th...

( People with arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, can in some cases have reactions triggered by just the image of a spider. To view my image...

I was doing some clean-up of blown down trees on our West Hill property when I found this toad trying to put some more distance between the ...