Springcreekland —by Joe Scheidler

We were in South Lake Tahoe a few months ago and one sunny midmorning I looked up and saw a pair of coyotes casually walking down the middle...

It’s three degrees down in the hole this morning but it could be the beginning of the end.  The forecast calls for a high of 37, the first a...

Atop an old utility pole next to the pond is a wood duck house with a feathered grey face peering out the entrance hole. A screech owl. Ove...

It’s nine degrees this morning.  Snow is falling in tiny, delicate flakes, so the entire landscape is viewed through a fine linen curtain.  ...

We live in an old farmhouse where resident mice are a fact of life.  Generally, they are deer mice, a species typically associated with wood...

There’s a parcel of land between us and town that was recently sold and now has activity involving excavators and bulldozers. A woodlot occu...

It was cold today.  Subzero overnight, low single digits for highs.  We picked up another shy inch of snow, the light, fluffy stuff that res...