The Joyce Road Neighborhood

After more than a week of temperatures in the upper 80's and lower 90's we had our first frost of fall this morning. This evening ju...

It has been hot and dry for most of this month and very few of the fall mushrooms have developed. I was surprised to find this Shaggy Mane( ...

The neighborhood fawns from this spring have grown rapidly over this summer and this male fawn is starting to display "buttons" th...

Rose hips are the seed pods of roses. I found these brightly colored rose hips along a road on our cabin property. They are actually very or...

The Zinnias are blooming and this Monarch butterfly was more interested in the flower than escaping from me.

Our grandson, Mr. Reed, is now one year old and has developed from a baby to a little boy. Mr. Reed has been walking since he was 10 mon...

I was traveling through a wooded area on my tractor when this Ruffed Grouse jumped into the road in front of me. I'm not sure if it thou...

Stinkhorn Mushrooms are group of mushrooms that get their name from the fact you may smell these mushroom before you see them. We were at ou...

The temperatures at night are now dipping into the low 40's(F) and the pumpkins have turned a bright orange. As the warm days of summer ...

Today's "Critter Encounter" was with a Io Moth ( Automeris io ) caterpillar while I was mowing our lawn. It was easy to see th...

It was another day in the woods cutting firewood and another "critter encounter". This time the critter was a Red-Spotted Newt ( N...

The colder weather will soon be here and it's always nice to have a supply of firewood ready. Multiple storms this summer blew down seve...

It was another damp day and I came across a couple of these black and orange millipedes known as Apheloria virginiensis . Millipedes on ...

It's not often when you drive down a road and notice some bugs on a tree 40 feet away, but these bugs got me to stop and look. The bugs ...

It rained most of yesterday and our woods was very damp, but I still decided to clean up some dead trees. While driving along the muddy road...