"… to be used for nature study and as a preserve for birds and other wildlife."- Carmen Hambleton Warner
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow This will be short post this week, as I have been working on a renovation project at the Fairfield County Historical Parks office and have not seen much of the preserve this week, And I… Continue Reading “A Day in the Life…Part 8”
In Part 5 the picture below appeared. A harbinger of spring ? I did not reveal who had made the tracks, but if you guessed the critters below then you were correct. . This pair of Canada geese have been in and out several… Continue Reading “A Day in the Life… Part 7”
Well the winter roll-a-coaster has taken us to February. The picture below mirrors the winter – some places frozen, some places thawed. While the pond is still frozen solid, the lawn in front of the nature center has only a trace of snow, due… Continue Reading “A Day in the Life….Part 6”
Wahkeena Trail Head This winter continues to be an up and down affair. Cold and snow, thaw, cold and snow….But still we have not had the fridge temperatures of last year. Earlier in the week, as the snow on Lake Odonata was melting, I… Continue Reading “A Day in the Life…..Part 5”
Things are still pretty quiet around the preserve, but the fun thing about nature is that it is always changing so you never know what you are going to discover on a given day. Yesterday turned out to be a day of curiosities. The… Continue Reading “A Day in the Life….Part 4”
With the temperature approaching 40 degrees today, the Rhododendron leaves, that were tightly curled a week ago, are fully uncurled today. With the weather so nice, Nora and I thought it would be a good time to check out frozen Lake Odonata. We were… Continue Reading “A Day in the Life – Part 3”
Posted by Tom Hello to all the Wahkeena blog followers out there in cyberville. Today marks the start of a new blog feature that will appear under the title- “A Day in the Life”. I will attempt to take you through a year in… Continue Reading “"Wahkeena….A Day in the Life"”
Old Guest Cabin What a different a week makes! The hills and valleys of Wahkeena are now blanketed with 5 inches of powdery snow and the temperatures dancing above and below 0 degrees. The dark green foliage to the left of the cabin in… Continue Reading “A Day in the Life -Part 2”
The Wahkeena Version As our holiday gift to you, below is our rendition of the traditional ‘A Visit From St. Nicholas’ written about the happenings here at Wahkeena. ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, Photo of the lodge, circa 1950… Continue Reading “‘Twas The Night Before Christmas”
The Old Farmer’s Almanac, an entertaining booklet which predicts the climate for the coming year, has forecast a colder than normal winter for Ohio. In contrast, many ‘traditional’ methods of predicting the weather have determined… Well, they have not determined much of anything, but… Continue Reading “Farmer’s Almanac vs. Wacky Weather Wisdom”