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Reflections in Nature: Potatoes grow in almost any type of soil

With the scare of contaminated lettuce, many people have cut down on salads and are eating servings of cooked and raw vegetables. Have you ever wondered what the favorite vegetable is worldwide? Perhaps your answer would be the tomato. However, the tomato is a fruit. My vote is for the potato. While working in the yard and garden on the hot and humid days, we often find it easier to go to McDonalds for lunch. McDonalds’ french fries are the reason the potato gets my vote. However the fries have to be served hot, with a lot of salt. Mary Alice’s mother made the best french fries, ...

Outdoors community calendar for week of August 11

SOLAR VIEWING WHERE: Little Pine State Park and Hyner Run State Park WHEN: Friday, Aug. 14 at 3 p.m. (Hyner Run) and 6 p.m. (Little Pine) NOTES: Join the naturalist to do some solar viewing and learn things about the most well-known star in ur solar system: the sun. All children must be accompanied by an adult in order to participate. The program may be modified or canceled in the event of severe weather or new community guidelines. Those interested in the Little Pine program should meet at the beginning of the Lake Shore trail (by the top of dam). Those interested in the Hyner ...

A bipod can give you a leg up

With hunting season quickly approaching, many hunters are looking for ways to improve their odds at filling tags. Most will be searching for new ammunition, the latest camouflage, or better scent control. Maybe you should consider adding a bipod to your setup. Your idea of a bipod is probably limited to what you have seen on television or in the movies: a bulky contraption used to help hold a heavy weapon such as a machine gun, not something suitable for use when hunting. Although that may have been true at one time, it is not a modern hunting bipod. Modern hunting bipods come in ...

A photographic look at the Susquehanna Greenway Partnership's fifth-annual Outdoor Expo the Shikellamy State Park Marina in Sunbury this past Saturday. Set at the scenic confluence of the North and West Branches of the Susquehanna River, the Outdoor Expo is the region’s premier celebration ...

Reflections in Nature: Toads and frogs are similar, yet different

Mary Alice has had an iris garden along the side and the back of the house for about 15 year. The original rhizomes were given to her by Glen Bowers, who was the executive director of the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Through the years, she has spent more hours on the iris plants than any other flowers in her garden. This past spring the plants had very few flowers. Mary Alice decided to clean out and separate the plants earlier than usual, and, in doing so, she discovered that the rhizomes were infested and rotted. This led her to dig up the entire iris bed. In the process, she ...