Personal Names for Magical Places

Personal Names for Magical Places

There was a time when the lands and waters around you had no names, for naming is a human act – evidence of a geographic awareness and a product o...
Personal Names for Magical Places

Personal Names for Magical Places

There was a time when the lands and waters around you had no names, for naming is a human act – evidence of a geographic awareness and a product o...
Honeysuckle Sipping

Honeysuckle Sipping

When out walking, look along the path for honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) flowers.  These white and yellow flowers are hard to miss since they are...
Skunk Cabbage

Skunk Cabbage

Few are the poets who sing the praises of the earliest and largest of our spring flowers. But this is the fate of the skunk cabbage — a reddish-ma...

A Crown of Leaves

The fallen leaves of autumn provide the opportunity to make leaf crowns, a dress up activity that never fails to please children.  Look for a tree...

The Delaware River: From small source to big mouth

The Delaware river starts with rain falling on what is known as the Hudson-Delaware divide in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Generally speakin...

The Frenchtown Bridge

The first bridge across the Delaware River at Frenchtown was a covered wooden bridge that was supported by the five stone and masonry piers that s...