Snow and Jaggers

Oil Creek State Park seemed almost...majestic…from high up on the Gerard Trail, where it followed  the eastern valley wall in the winter.  O...

If there’s one order of animals I kinda hate, it’s rodents. I mean, I can never get enough of porcupines, though they quickly get their fill...

This is the monument to “Colonel” Edwin Drake, who drilled the world’s first oil well near Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859. The well still...

Until about the middle of the 20th century, most homes in the English-speaking world had a family Bible—often the old “King James Version” o...

Are these the “Appellation” Mountains or the “Apple-atchan” Mountains?  Traditionally, here in the northern reaches of the geographic region...

Because Christmas lasts till January 6, you know...  But it's never too late to become a Stoic. I'm feeling philosophical.  A good g...

I slipped away on a Sunday night, just after the concert described in the post below, to go up to the North Country to write a Christmas Eve...