Recently, my wife Kathy wished to replenish our stock of some household items at a large retail establishment in South Union Township. Owing to a health issue, we had been mostly homebound for weeks, so the trip offered diversion. Still, when we reached the store, perched on a manmade plateau, ...
<strong>S</strong>eason is a word that鈥檚 used in all kinds of ways. We just endured the merciful end of a disappointing football season. Deer season always feels too short. The construction season is generally considered as all but the winter months, and the ...
Readers who feed birds know how the antics of small but energetic creatures can cheer a winter day. The comings and goings of chickadees, titmice, blue jays, nuthatches and woodpeckers offer welcome diversion. Male cardinals are especially striking. Their vivid red, posed against the winter ...
There鈥檚 no photo of a downed ruffed grouse to make this column complete. That鈥檚 fine. I didn鈥檛 kill one the lone day I hunted grouse this year. It wasn鈥檛 for lack of trying that I did not down a grouse that day. I came home with two empty shell casings to show for three windy, snowy ...
Trout anglers who fish Dunbar Creek will recall the familiar 鈥渏ack dams鈥� that formed deep pools in that stream until an all-night downpour washed them out in August 2014. The wooden dams were built years ago by well-intended anglers to improve trout habitat. But depending on which fishermen ...
This past deer season offered the rare pleasure of hunting on persistent snow. Except for the wind-blown rain torrents of opening day and the first Saturday鈥攚hich, ironically, are the two days of greatest hunter participation鈥攕now covered the ground for the rest of the season. Even in the ...
