Gardening with the Birds

With the threat of rain in the forecast, I tilled a patch of well-drained soil early this morning and planted a salad garden in it – spinach, Romaine and leaf lettuces, Swiss chard, beets, red onion...

White-throated Sparrow

This morning, while I ran on roads through woods and clearings, I was serenaded by the early songsters of the Nova Scotian spring dawn chorus – American robins, ruby-crowned kinglet, song sparrow, h...

White-tailed Deer Sign

Today I recalled walking our long access road through the woods to Balmoral Road fourteen years ago, my mind filled with nothing but an image of breakthrough. One doe on the lawn is what Vilis spotted...

Enter May in Northern Nova Scotia

In our yard and beyond, red maples have thrown off the somber cloak of winter and dressed their branches with flowers of red and white, the clustered blossoms tinging our northern Nova Scotia landscap...