Holiday beers are predictably rich, dark, and spiced affairs, often laced with festive seasonings like cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and...

For three weeks in June, I traveled up and then down the eastern seaboard visiting ecological research sites.  From...

The Delmarva Peninsula juts southward towards North Carolina like the appendix of the eastern seaboard.  It’s southernmost third, given...

Out on the Big Meadow in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, the ranger (that is Virginia the state, not Virginia...

Every other year, a large chunk of my family (my wife’s mother’s side) rents a fancy house on a...

The birding at Virginia Beach, as I’ve mentioned, was fair, but held the promise of far better biodiversity if...

While I never expected to become a connoisseur of fine Atlantic Ocean beaches, I’ve visited enough of them in...

Our Delmarva Peninsula weekend had just begun, and already half of our group had to leave. Before he hit...