Through Handlens and Binoculars

This past Saturday, I was lucky enough to botanize in southern Indiana with the one of Indiana's botanical rock stars, Mike Homoya. I tr...

This past Friday and Saturday, I attended my third bioblitz of the year, this time at Loblolly Marsh in Jay County, Indiana. As recently as ...

Those were Lindsay's first words after trying her Pilothouse Pilsner. A little worried to try it myself after this assessment, I asked ...

When we moved into our house in the spring of 2007, there was a Barn Swallow ( Hirundo rustica ) nest on our front porch... or so we thought...

In a recent post , I noted that we were keeping count of the number of ticks found on each of us this year. To date, the standings are: Boo...

Purple Loosestrife ( Lythrum salicaria ) is a perennial herbaceous plant native to Europe and Asia. Many people think this is a "pretty...

Lindsay ran in the 5K race at the Sunburst in South Bend this morning. Here she is at about the 2 mile mark. She finished with a time of 27...

A few months back, one of my coworkers brought in a twig from a shrub on a property that one of her friends had purchased last year. I quick...