The bees are "winterized"—their entrances reduced, mouse protection added, and sky-blue sheets of Styrofoam insulation placed atop...

"See the geese in chevron flight, flappin' and a-racin' on before the snow...they got the urge for going and they got the wings...

Pumpkin. Glam caterpillar on fennel. Honeybee on zinnia. Bumblebee on sunflower. A neighbor's strange enterprise. Rat-hunting target pra...

The weather is finally turning cold (or cold-ish) and hard frost has come, weeks past its due date, zapping the remaining color from the fie...

Autumn has been gentle so far, with no hard frost as of yet and none predicted for the upcoming week. Though there's been significant di...

We, and the bees, are lucky. Autumn is being generous to us.

We have been warned that first frost may come tomorrow night. If it's a killing frost, it will be a big deal for the bees—the precipitou...

Autumn has definitely come to Hooterville, complete with an explosion of aster and the first hesitant dropping of maple, birch and chestnut ...