
I found this wonderful fly in Valley Forge called a Marsh Fly. After posting him somebody told me that he had a smiley face on the back of his wings. I went back and looked at other shots I had taken of him, and lo and behold he does have a smily face on…

Last Thursday and Friday I spent long hours at Pawlings Farm where truly hundreds of American toads were doing their annual mating dance in the vernal pools. There were not nearly as many as in years past, but still there were hundreds. I told my daughter- in- law that she and her daughter Piper…