Almanac: Strange Pearls
The woods, fields, and waterways of the Pioneer Valley are rich with wildlife. Over the...
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Almanac: A Porcupine, By Jove
The moon is surpassingly lovely, but it’s often so bright that it makes stargazing a...
Almanac: Anopheles As Mephistopheles
I don’t know about you, but I have been unusually beset by mosquitos this summer....
Almanac: Hemlock Double-Whammy
On a hike a couple of weeks ago I came across an odd sight: a...
Almanac: Idyll Interrupted
No sooner had I written a column about birds mobbing other birds than I was...
Almanac: Mobsters
I was descending the steep trail down North Sugarloaf mountain in Deerfield last weekend when...
Almanac: Sensitive
Most of the trees and plants in the valley seem to have shrugged off the...
Almanac: Oak Apples
It was only 28 degrees last Thursday morning, so I was bundled up with a...
Almanac: Beetle Art
Between rain squalls last week I hiked the Emily Dickinson Trail along the Fort River....
Almanac: Show & Tell
Not everything is column-worthy. Sometimes I come across things on outdoor rambles that are simply...
Almanac: The Mystery Of Marcescence
The trail in the October Mountain State Forest near Lee was sloppy in the spring-like...
Almanac: Sisters
It was snowing with gathering intensity last weekend as I set off from a trailhead...