The Joyce Road Neighborhood

The Wild Bergamot is blooming and its an indication that the days of summer will soon become fall. When I was young it was a sign that summe...

A few years ago I started looking for Morel mushrooms but didn't find too many in this area so I started looking for other edible mushro...

We are now into the middle of Summer and some of the recent heavy rains have brought some early Indigo Milk Cap ( Lactarius indigo ) mushro...

I was returning home from our cabin in the early evening when I saw some deer grazing next to the cabin driveway. As I watched the deer, a f...

As I've been driving by our pond, I've been playing a game of "peek-a-boo" with a juvenile great blue heron. Most of the t...

The temperature pushed into the upper 80's(F) today and I observed several of the neighborhood deer in our pond at the cabin getting a d...

Ever since we have owned our barn property there has been a small patch of flowering Sweet Peas growing along the driveway. I have avoided m...

I was checking the small stream behind our house for damage from this week's heavy rains and I found this bullfrog enjoying this newly f...

I was driving along Joyce Road when I noticed this fawn in the neighbor's pasture. The fawn had got inside the pasture and was looking f...

I've noticed a lone turkey in the field below our barn several times in the past weeks and now I know why, its been eating my raspberrie...

This year's fawns are showing up all over the neighborhood. I caught some movement along the side of the road and found these two camouf...

It was sunny this morning, but it started raining around 10:00PM last night and by daybreak we had recorded 2.66 inches of rain with our wea...

This year's new fawns are now 4 to 6 weeks old and starting to be more socially visible with the other deer in the neighborhood. One...

A thunder storm passed through the neighborhood today around 4:00PM while I was mowing the lawn at our barn and I was forced to seek shelter...

Another big day for Mr. Reed, our grandson, as he starts his day with a healthy breakfast. He's now 10 months old and time for a visit w...