"What the heck is this?" my sweetie asked. He was lying prone on the kitchen floor, peering under the refrigerator. "Give me...

  We hiked on a wet hillside on a 33 degree day, and ice crunched underfoot. The water had frozen into ribbons of ice called extrusions. Wat...

The melting snow shows the flow of water through my lawn--something that is normally invisible to me. The leach field on the north side of t...

The melting snow shows the footsteps of Mother Nature. The bounding tracks of squirrels melted first, looking like giant footprints through ...

  My friend Paula harvested greens from her winter garden--collards and kale. It's a good thing we have autumn harvest stored away for t...

 Merry Rainy Day. 55 degrees and 2 inches of rain, which melted our 20 inches of snow.  I took advantage of the thaw to run out to the garde...

As the solstice bonfire leapt toward the sky and began to melt the snow in a three-foot ring around the fire, a vole started running around ...