A recent brief photo shoot in my backyard reminded me of how fortunate I am to live where I live, to have the bird feeder arrangement I ha...

  My previous post tells why my family gathered in Colorado- my father’s Saturday, March 1 funeral.  This entry is about the beauty of the ...

  On Feb. 20 at 3:10 a.m. my dear father, Michael Sullivan Harwood, departed this life, taking the express lane to Heaven. He had a long rob...

  You can hear me by clicking here Local TV meteorologists were predicting it for several days and around 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 21 it began. Wha...

  I was eager to get in an early 2025 nature outing so on Jan. 9 I cleared my schedule and headed south down to the ACE Basin. It was clear ...

  This year is ending with a flurry of backyard bird activity. A highlight has been discovering a species I have not seen before (nor had ev...

FEBRUARY 2018 Since traveling to Orangeburg to teach at SC State - wow it has been 10 years now- I daily pass this old homestead. I see it w...

  This past Sunday I spent quality time at one of the Charleston area’s most unique and unusual grave sites.  This is a story of a death tha...

  Two days before Thanksgiving worked out well for a visit to the ACE Basin, the Lowcountry treasure of vast wilderness and wildlife.  With...

This weekend Baltimore Orioles have been frequenting my feeder that has a small dish of grape jelly just for them. See the little pop of or...