The Joyce Road Neighborhood

Mary was working in her flowers today when I pulled into the driveway and noticed she had a new friend watching her. About 50 feet behind he...

In a few days it will be November and I found these 6 Eastern Painted Turtles at our pond trying to catch some sun and stay warm on an Autum...

I often see deer as I drive around the neighborhood and sometimes wounder how many deer I don't see are watching me. The only reason I w...

The Autumn leaves are falling, but so are the walnuts. We have several walnut trees around our barn and I hauled away a front end loader buc...

Last year we had an ash tree removed from our lawn because it had been infected by Emerald Ash Borers and died. I've monitored our ash t...

I planted some sunflowers in our garden this year and the seed-heads were finally ready to harvest. The next step is drying the seed-heads i...

I started harvesting the seed heads of the sunflowers in our garden when I came across several European Hornets(Vespa crabro) on the sunflow...

It started out as a clean up of some trees that blew down this summer during storms. It looked like a small cleanup project, but the more I ...

You never know what you will find in a wood pile. We found this star-nosed mole( Condylura cristata ) while splitting firewood. They have bl...

We are still splitting our firewood and found this nest of baby field mice in the wood pile. They still don't have their eyes open y...

We were at our barn today splitting some firewood when we found this praying mantis in the wood pile. This praying mantis was friendly ...

Its been a few months since I've seen any bald eagles along Wysox Creek, but I couldn't miss seeing this bald eagle today. As I star...

I had just started my chain saw and was preparing to cut some firewood when I noticed a moving mass in the leaves on the ground. I grabbed m...

I was working in my garden today, cleaning and preparing it for next spring, when I saw a white van with strange objects mounted on its roof...

A few of the neighborhood deer stopped at my wildlife food plot this evening. For the deer this is the time of year they enjoy the ample sup...