On Independence Day, the 4th of July, I was sitting in the kitchen of my parents’ house drinking some coffee and sharing some homemade...

This past weekend had the family and me visiting my folks for Easter in my hometown of Saugerties, New York, “Where,” as the slogan...

My trip upstate this past weekend was about more than family, food, and feathers (though all three of those things figured heavily).  Somehow we...

While in my hometown of Saugerties, New York, this past weekend there was one activity that I had no choice but to do early...

Now that Daisy and I have a child our number of visits upstate have lessened dramatically.  The thirty-minute subway ride to Manhattan followed by...

I spent my weekend in upstate New York with Daisy visiting my folks and we had a good old time eating far too much...

Folks might remember that last year I did what I grandly called an Anti-Global Warming Big Year, the idea of which was was to...

Window feeders are great.  Especially when the birds that come to said feeders are used to people walking up to look at them.  They’re...