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Two of the new apple trees So far, the ten new apple trees are doing beautifully. They have developed many leaves and even some buds! We ma...

You learn a lot digging in the dirt. John found this ancient maple tree stump, bigger than the tractor, in the front near the road behind t...

Unidentified grasshopper Dandelion ( Taraxacum officinale ) Geometer moth _/\_/\_

Can you find the crow hidden in this photo? I was at the library when I saw a crow far off in an oak tree behaving oddly. I grabbed the cam...

Tent caterpillars in apple tree One of the apple trees has tent caterpillars. Probably more by now since we haven't done a thing to thi...

Barbarea vulgaris I'm identifying more and more wildflowers! This is yellow rocket, also called common winter cress. In the photo above...

Budding marsh marigolds on May 7, 2011 in the orchard John gets upset when I call these cowslips. He's from New Hampshire and they call...

What color is the throat of the violets in these photos? Wildflower identification can be frustrating. How difficult can it be to identify ...

The new rhubarb bed. Years ago, I found a beautiful Canadian red rhubarb that I love. I had two plants but I never divided them. They were ...

On May 9, I was driving south on Route 16 in Glover when a moose popped out of the woods at Runaway Pond. My camera was in its bag, but I g...

A bouquet from Andrew Mother's Day was three weeks ago and I continue to have wonderful memories of the day. Andrew sent the bouquet of...

A tine from a spring tooth horse-drawn harrow After last year's flash flood , when we suffered damage, John has been grading the land a...

Underground spring bubbles up through quicksand There is a large underground spring in the orchard that comes up out of sand and flows down...

Anaxyrus americanus old Bufo americanus americanus After living here nearly a decade and only seeing one toad, I have now seen two in one y...

Early in May, when the snow had melted enough to move about outside and take a look around, John began using construction materials that ha...

Poplar bark We have tried to find the scientific name of what we, and folks here, call the poplar tree. However, we keep getting the Easter...

Buddy resting while walking with us in the woods. Buddy doesn't like our long walks anymore — he now prefers short ones close to home. ...