Sweating the Small Stuff

It's still cold but the season has definitely turned a corner. There are lots of signs. First of all, the moment the snow and ice disa...

I have to admit, in all these dark gloomy days when the temperatures never rise out of the 20's, and there is an inch-thick sheet of sol...

More freezing, more pounding rain, and then the sun comes out, it warms up a little, and I step out in the backyard. I check the leaf litter...

There are some very small spiders (2.5 mm) out there that are so numerous they can create effects which you can see from a hundred feet away...

It is officially winter, the Northern Hemisphere has had its shortest day/longest night, and now our days will begin lengthening.  Our good ...