Watching the Sun Bake

  Male Baltimore Oriole - Photo by Fernando Sequarea Fifty years ago this morning, May 15, 1975, at almost this exact minute, my former wife...

    George W. Bush, a failed businessperson from Texas, swept into the White House on January 20, 2001, with grandiose plans. Dubya’s prow...

Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Stutsman County North Dakota is home to as many as 35,000 breeding pairs of American White Pelicans. ...

  Seeing a Saint Pierre et Miquelon license plate was a special treat in July With 2024 rapidly winding down its easy to say that license pl...

  Hurricane Milton was a scary storm even as just a Category 3.  He made landfall 6 miles from our house.  Our only damage was a broken palm...

  Friday, June 28, 2024, we leave the heat and humidity of South Florida behind and travel northeast to Iceland. First we fly on JetBlue Air...

Juneau has the distinction of being the only state capital in the United States that cannot be reached by road. Alaska Airlines serves Junea...

This story unfolded 40 years ago today in a South Alabama truck stop. Spend the first 25 winters of your life in northern Wisconsin and you ...

  My first long-distance chase for a rare bird was a 48 hour one-way marathon by car and train from Jamestown, North Dakota to Churchill, Ma...