"Very safe and wonderful for kids, but most of my neighbors are elderly. Very few young couples with children." 1 Flag Daniel And Nancy Murphy Resident 10mo ago "The Christmas golf cart parade is really neat. It’s unique to the neighborhood and people from outside the area come to see...
Steve and I followed these birds around for a bit, thoroughly soaking up the experience. I don’t think either of us ever expected to lifer on this bird with such good looks. We certainly didn’t expect to get this lifer in Grant County. This nighttime singer is often a heard-only bir...
Other plants came from Lisa’s Mom’s garden, among them, smokebush that has become a graceful mini-forest via lower branches that layered themselves. They are accented by the copper bird bath from her garden. A small planting of smokebush near a front corner of the house has naturalized ...
Erina Bookerhas written poetry for most of her life. She completed a Major in Literature within her Bachelor of Arts degree from Griffith University (Queensland, Australia). Her first publications were inThe Ithaca Grapevine, while she was living at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY). She has writt...
Canada, and Great Britain in publications includingCalifornia Quarterly,Windsor Review,Ibbetson Street Press,Avocet, andThe Aurorean. He currently lives and writes in Sacramento, California with his wonderful wife, Rita, and enjoys the seasonal changes in the bird-rich marshes and rice fields near ...
anguishing. Case in point was an Eastern Whip-poor-will found by Dan Orr on April 30 in the far NW corner of the county. Dan found the bird during the day surprisingly, and not surprisingly, I was tied up with shuttling kids around to their activities. I couldn’t make the 40-...
(Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014) and her new collectionNotes from the Patagonia(dancing girl press, 2017), five audio recordings and 17 anthologies. She also pens travel pieces, with stories appearing in the anthologiesDrive: Women’s True Stories from the Open Road(Seal Press, 2002) andFar Flung...
With the objective met so quickly and so easily, no one really knew what to do afterward. After shooting the breeze for quite awhile, we settled on going after the only other type of new county bird we could really try for this time of year: Owls. Now the focus was on Eastern Screec...