Pocahontas County Fare

The bear was back again yesterday, and this time we saw him eating fallen cherries under our fruit trees. We like these cherries, too. They...

It stopped raining yesterday afternoon, and this fellow came up out of the brush to see what he could see. This always gets me pretty excit...

Black walnut inflorescences from my yard, earlier this spring.

The top photograph is Painted Trillium, photographed in mid-May on Droop Mountain. This is the first time I've found it in bloom. For co...

I entered the autoharp contest at the Maury River Fiddler's Convention last Thursday, as planned. I played "Chinkypin," it we...

We collected these "specimens" (also known as "dinner")of pheasant's backs just before Memorial Day. According to W...

I hadn't intended to keep a photo blog, although recent trends contradict this. I have nothing against photo blogs, mind you. If I had...

He's not "feathering his nest." He's not "woolgathering," because I left some carded sheep's fleece out in t...

We continue to play with the new camera. What better way to test the stop-motion modes than a hummingbird? The lower photo shows the little ...

More photos, less text seems to be my rule these days. I try to limit my computer time each day, and lately, I have been doing a number of ...

I've been walking by these for several years with scarcely a glance, assuming that the pinnately compound leaves belonged to some sort o...

This spring has been spectacular for flowers. Where I usually see one or two blooms, or notice a plant without flowers, this year, everythi...

Last weekend, we took our pop-up camper to Charleston to the Vandalia Gathering, the premier West Virginia traditional music festival. Oth...

Is James Dickey's Deliverance an adventure story set in the land of the nine-fingered people, where musicians are wall-eyed albino idi...

I continue to pick at James Dickey's vitriolic and stereotypic descriptions of Appalachian people in Deliverance . Did Dickey mean for...

It's been a banner year for lilacs in Pocahontas County. All the bushes I've seen have been covered with blossoms, Even this old s...

I don't seem to be able to read one book and then put it down and move on. For some time, I've been trying to interpret James Dicke...

I mentioned Deliverance recently, in the context of entertainment suitable for discouraging unwanted tourism. I saw the movie when it fi...

We've been making a few late passes through the woods, looking for the yellow morels. They've been scattered, but we've found en...

Another mystery novel I read this week, under the guise of spring cleaning, was Anne Perry's A Sudden, Fearful Death . Like Ruth Rendel...