Archimedes Notebook

 Some mornings the fog rolls in and sticks around for a couple of hours. It's still cool, and the perfect time for a nature walk. Not on...

      This past Sunday, Mothers Day, was perfect weather for a walk. So we headed to the Logan Hill Nature Preserve, a Finger Lakes Land Tru...

 Last week a friend invited us to stroll through the Arnold Arboretum. It's Harvard University's "tree museum" and botanic...

The Observologist: A Handbook for Mounting Very Small Scientific Expeditions  by Giselle Clarkson  120 pages; ages 8-13 Gecko Press (Lerner)...

 A few years ago lightning hit an oak tree behind my garden. Neighbors helped fell the tree and cut up most of it for firewood... but there ...

Last week I walked around Sapsucker woods ( Cornell Lab of Ornithology ). This is a great time to see trilliums (trillions of trilliums flow...

 In June, I was very fortunate to take an Alaskan cruise with my husband. We saw beautiful mountains, waterfalls, eagles, glaciers, and…fung...