By the end of August we already saw changes in the woods. The briar leaves had turned yellow and had started to fall. There were even some spots of color where tree leaves were starting to change. The end of summer here and the beginning of fall were extremely dry, hardly any rain at all. […]
Spring in the woods seems to be a bigger transition than autumn. In autumn our activities focus on dealing with the masses of leaves that fall in the yard. The woods change in appearance, but the change is slow, over a period of time beginning in late August. Spring seems to happen all at once. […]
I, this is George writing, spend a lot of time in the woods in winter. Most of this time is spent cutting, splitting and stacking firewood, but I also walk in the woods. Winter is a time of contrasts in West Virginia. The temperatures can be unseasonably warm, or it can be bitterly cold. It […]