05.31.2011 News Focus on Nature: Enjoying a perfect, sunny day With all the discouraging weather we’ve been having I put off writing Focus in hopes of finding that “perfect day.” Then like all good things that take time, the...
05.16.2011 News Focus on Nature: On spring lilacs, bats and horseshoe crabs In our family, spring’s true meaning arrives when the lilacs come into bloom. Whether you have them in your backyard or enjoy your neighbor’s, the clusters of assorted purple...
05.01.2011 News Focus on Nature: We return home, and so do the birds Yes, there’s no place like home. What a difference in climate: Florida with its semi-tropical weather and its 80-degree water temperature, and then up here, the North Fork with...
04.15.2011 News Focus on Nature: Heading home, as Florida spring blooms Barbara is in the kitchen finishing up the dinner dishes while I try to get started on my last article written down here in Florida. The winter has gone...
04.07.2011 News Focus on Nature: A great day for birders Since our taxes had been sent in and it was another beautiful day down here in Florida, we decided to go on one of our mini-adventures away from the...
03.22.2011 News Focus on Nature: North Fork ospreys coming back to work Slowly our ospreys are arriving back on the North Fork after their winter vacation, which could have taken them as far away as Brazil. Many people on the North...
03.07.2011 News Focus on Nature: When the mackerel run, run after them Though winter is still holding onto the North Fork, down here in Florida the colder days have left and days in the 70s and 80s are now more common....
02.21.2011 News Focus on Nature: Parakeets win for color and noisiness As our lives have slowed down, Barbara and I have been spending our winter months down in Florida, where we follow our feathered friends by looking for them as...
01.25.2011 News Focus: Beach birds of the Fork and Florida After our cold, windy winter weather here we decided to get out and see what Mother Nature had done to our beaches. We found that she did the same...
01.11.2011 News Focus: Enjoying a Florida park and a Christmas boat parade Early one morning we took a walk at the Joan M. Durante Park, not too far from where we live. It is a community park and was started much...