Birds of a Feather
Our backyard bird feeder has been a flurry of activity since the “big snow” yesterday.

Our backyard bird feeder has been a flurry of activity since the “big snow” yesterday.
Summer is here. School is out and families are beginning to plan vacations: trips to the beach, an amusement park, a museum… all wonderful places, full of fun, unless you and your child are separated, and then they become places of sheer panic: crowds of people coming and going and large areas of ground…
What an exciting, informative, fun-filled, LOUD night! Connor’s Tiger Cub Den went on a Go-See-It to a local nature center, Hidden Pond Nature Center, in Springfield. Hidden Pond is known for its, well… pond… and the tadpoles, frogs, turtle, snakes, and birds that live there. The boys received a naturalist-led tour of the nature center…
What do you get when you put FOUR BOYS and TWO MOMS in a LAKESIDE CABIN in Vermont for ONE WEEK? Hours spent at the LAKE: Endless SMILES. More FISH than you care to take off the hook so it’s a good thing the boys learned to do it themselves: Contagious GIGGLES. And Summertime MEMORIES…
On several visits to local parks and gardens, the boys and I have heard talk of the difficulty Virginia parks are having with invasive non-native vines overtaking native undergrowth, shading out and replacing native wildflowers, and climbing and eventually killing native trees. Unfortunately, when native plants are edged out, the diversity of plants needed by…
“But ask the animals, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you; ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done…
The boys started their morning, picking up where they left off last night: playing outside with Cranium’s Super Fort Building Set. In their adventures, they happened upon a baby bird that had fallen from its nest. They were sad that its life had ended so quickly, but fascinated by its appearance: translucent skin, HUGE…