A rubber-legged Cyclops stalked the water’s shallow banks in the night. Thomas Mitchell, president of the Frog Gigging Club at Virginia Tech, sloshed along the pond’s edge wearing chest-high waders ...
On a wintry day, I visited a stand of ponderosa pines, but had to walk briskly to keep warm. Chickadees and nuthatches flitted busily about, harvesting anything they could find. In my managed state of ...