Three Things Very Dull Indeed

Our observant readers probably noticed something unusual in the photo accompanying the last post. As is my custom after the first mowing, I...

Spring growth was pretty minimal this year until about a week ago. Suddenly, trees are flowering, budding, or leafing out, and the grass ...

Now that winter is officially finished, we can look back at the temperature data and compare reality to what we remembered. I think everyon...

Our neighbors had good success last winter harvesting maple sap and converting that to syrup, so we all anticipated the products of this y...

Once every century our calendar and clocks order themselves in such a way to duplicate more than just a few digits of pi (the number repres...