There's a reason for these. Okay, the reason was that I needed a place to park them to give them a web address...

When we left Moline, we finally drove to one of the four states on our trip we hadn’t been in before, South Dakota. Family time over, adve...

My husband has two different sized ears.  This is not a normal condition with him; but two days ago he got stung by a yellow jacket while ...

If you go to this link , you can see a huge, searchable image of ancient elephant tracks laid across what is now a desert in the United Ar...

Two years ago our local zoo made the national news with the birth of a baby black rhino. Eventually named Zuri, Swahili for "beautifu...

I didn't used to pay much attention to birds.  I could identify the obvious ones, like robins, cardinals, and blue jays, and the exoti...

Great Blue Heron Spring and fall are good times for watching birds in my neighborhood. We live five blocks from a pond (we call it a lake, b...