The autumn interlude between the dropping of the leaves until the snow cover, a time that I like to call AutWin, usually lasts about four weeks (roughly from Oct. 20 to Nov. 20), but this year, it ...

The subnivean zone provides a winter refuge for mice and other small animals. Submitted photo On a cold winter day, it’s easy to think of the landscape as frozen, silent, and asleep. Snow covers our ...

Let’s pick up where we left off 148 weeks ago. Not even you, faithful reader of this column, will recall that we were well into March 2023. By turning on the snow machine then, Mother Nature appeared ...