By the end of winter, Stacey and I -and many others in western Pennsylvania- are anxious for that first sunny day to go into the woods and look for spring, sensationally announced by wildflowers, and flowering trees.
We cannot overstate the importance of these inadvertent meadows in powerline right-of-ways in providing critical habitat to support butterflies, as well as native bees and other important insects. Because we typically view powerline corridors as common and unsightly, we overlook the beauty they hold at a more detailed scale, and more importantly, underestimate their potential as native species corridors.
Two-stem tulip trees are fairly common in Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests where tulip trees are dominant. Three-stem tulip trees are less common. But the rare four-stem tulip tree is a sight to behold.
Kevin’s latest book, Near Woods: A Year in an Allegheny Forest, is available from the publisher, Rowman & Littlefield (Stackpole Books), on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and numerous independent online book sellers.
In all, we encountered three different bands of wild mustangs in two different regions of Wyoming and Montana. The very first band we encountered was absolutely by accident. In fact, it took us a while before we fully realized that these were indeed WILD horses!
– EPISODE 2 – Saints Peter & Paul Orthodox Cemetery in the Ghost Town of Wehrum, Pennsylvania. “Once cooler temperatures arrive and the fall leaves are shed, Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery, on the hillside above the ghost town of Wehrum, can be magically beautiful;…
– EPISODE 1 – The Most Holy Trinity Church Cemetery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York We’re very excited to present this very first episode of our captivating new series “Fascinating Cemetery Haunts”. This special series regularly features new photo-essays highlighting one of the many intriguing cemeteries…
One fall evening, over dinner with our friend, Bobbie Jo (in case you were wondering, dinner was Garlicky Roast Chicken with Capers & Lemon, and lots of Italian bread to mop up the delicious sauce), we pondered on the forgotten histories of Johnstown’s working class…
Last September, Kevin and I enjoyed a day trip photographing cemeteries along the rural back roads of southern Cambria and northwestern Bedford Counties in western Pennsylvania. Later in the day, we decided to make the little trek down the secluded, heavily-wooded one-lane gravel/dirt road in…
