People have all kinds of rituals to celebrate life that I think animals would just find weird. There are weddings, where large groups come together to celebrate a couple getting together. Animals have more personal rituals, experienced only by the pair, sometimes for a moment, sometimes for a ...

Time moves faster as you age, or at least your perception of time does. This is a phenomenon that I’m sure many people have experienced; I certainly have. Summer months used to be endless as a child enjoying a break from school. Now they seem to fly by. Each yearly milestone, like holidays, ...

The Audubon Community Nature Center offers birdseed at a discounted rate during sales twice a year, providing savings for you and support for nature education. Orders are due by Saturday, Sept. 23, for Audubon’s Fall Birdseed Sale, which gives area residents an opportunity to save and ...

In most climates around the world and across the seasons, some variety of fungus is found, from those as big as your head to the microscopically small. Around here, those that prefer to grow directly from the ground are likely waiting to pop up after the ground unfreezes, but many fungi that ...

Fungi includes molds, mushrooms and toadstools. Area residents are invited to join the 3 to 8-year-old Little Explorers and their favorite adults learning about fungi on Saturday, Sept. 9, from 10 to 11:30 a.m., at the Audubon Community Nature Center. Across varying habitats a wide variety ...

While I still feel relatively young, the candles on my most recent birthday cake tell a different story. Some years go by and I don’t feel any older. But every so often, I can feel the accumulated years and the change they bring. This year I feel I turned a corner. I am one of the older staff ...