There's nothing like the Smoky Mountains in Fall. This past week here in the U.S. we celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a holiday upd...

Purple ironweed, friend to butterflies and hummers. Or spring for those in the southern hemisphere! Yes, we passed the equinox yesterday, ...

I don't usually post a lot about how I spend multiple hours every spring, summer and fall when I'm not writing science fiction rom...

  Each morning fog in WNC in August means a winter snow. I'm currently on vacation, so no long-winded post today. But as I enjoy my fami...

Shakespeare may have said that April is the cruelest month, but he had never had experience with spring in the mountains of Western North ...

We just celebrated Memorial Day here in the U.S., which marks the official beginning of summer. Summer isn’t my all-time favorite season (th...