The island across from the cottage yesterday, just after the snow quit. I t snowed yesterday…the first real snow this time around. W...

Great blue heron, stalking a breakfast fish along the river near the cottage, on a cloudy morning a few days ago. W ell, it's b...

A t bedtime last night, the temperature inside the cottage was 70˚F. and doubtless several degrees less than that o...

Early morning…a great blue heron takes a drink from the rain-refurbished river. I t rained last night. A long, soa...

H ere's something you don't see every day…a black groundhog! I've only ever seen one other black-furred woodchuck—and that oc...

W hile recently poking about a local prairie patch, thinking to make a few photos of butterflies and blacked-eyed Susans, I chanced upon ...

H ere in southwestern-Ohio, the high temp again exceeded 90˚F yesterday, as it did the day before and the day before that, ad infinitum. ...