Nature Done Wright
Incorporating the Celery Farm and Screech Owl Companion blogs
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Turkey along Franklin Turnpike
Perhaps because Ben Franklin wanted to make them the national bird instead of the Bald Eagle, Wild Turkeys often try
Best Nature-friendly Project by a Dam Site
Several years ago, when I first heard that the New Jersey chapter of The Nature Conservancy planned to remove a
An 1899 Article about ‘Slab Sides’
The very first edition of "Bird Lore," published in 1899 and edited by Bergen County's own Frank Chapman, featured an
My New Column: John Burroughs’ Slabsides
My latest column for The Record and the Herald News is about Slabsides and the John Burroughs Nature Sanctuary in
Allendale Is a Monarchy!
Everywhere I look in town, I see Monarch butterflies these days. And our Common Milkweed in the backyard has at
Monday Morning Mystery 082018
Photographed this in my backyard next to the Celery Farm earlier this month. What is it?
Monday (Art) Mystery Answered
On Monday, I wrote: This Georgia O'Keeffe painting in the National Galley in Washington, D.C., is entitled "A Black Bird
High Mountain’s ‘Marry Me’ Rock
One of the landmarks near the summit at High Mountain is a graffiti-scarred rock outcropping (upcropping?) that I have called
The Fell House Garden — Thank you!
Big thank to Kathy Vorhis and the Allendale Garden Club for making the garden near the entranee to the Fell
Nature Quote of the Day
I found the above quote in a foreword to a book I bought recently. The book is "The Wissahickon," published

