The pear tree outside my office window is radiantly orange, filling my office with a golden light that makes me want to linger at my...

After a month of rain, sometimes torrential, and then blistering heat (brief, thankfully), the garden is bursting with blooms. In the...

The new bird feeder is attracting all kinds of attention. The small birds have figured out how to eat from the feeder ­– the others...

We have a wooden bird feeder that squirrels can awkwardly perch on and feed from, but I haven’t minded sharing. Until this year. A canny...

We have squirrels – many, many squirrels. We also have a pear tree with inedible (to us) pears, so we let them fall, making the air...