The View from Squirrel Ridge

I took a few pictures at New Market Battlefield. These are at the Bushong Farm. The outbuildings were reconstructed on their original footpr...

I volunteered to help at Park Day at New Market Battlefield. We raked gravel and worked on building a split-rail fence. Men (and Boy Scouts...

I updated the Chemical Reaction Support Group page to list upcoming meetings organized by Dr. Plumlee. Amazon has Books on Chemical Sensiti...

You may have noticed that I changed the name of my blog to "The View from Squirrel Ridge." I thought it sounded more interesting t...

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Or maybe he likes looking shaggy.

Nature in Motion

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Update: many of these stores are no longer in existence. I am keeping this post for reference only.   ——— I stopped at Harvest Moon Natural ...

EPA says New York and California have worst air followed by Oregon, Washington, D.C., and New Jersey. The air pollution in these states inc...

Now I had fun making little caricatures of myself at abi-station.com . It takes a little experimenting but it's really neat once you ge...

Another look at Shrinemont

Professor Poland sent me a notice on the West Virginia Field Trip which will be May 19-21, 2006. It will cover the southern half of the Unio...

Be sure to see Marie's photos of the camel races in Kuwait. The Kuwaitis use small robots as jockeys - and they don't look much lik...

I've changed the picture on my profile again. It's a black and white version of a portrait from about three years ago. The right-han...

I got an interesting book from the library on 19th century photographer Michael Miley: General Lee's Photographer . It was published in ...

We had about an inch of snow the other day - enough to have to sweep the steps but not enough to make driving difficult. (I almost said haza...

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At Shrinemont you can take a trail to the "Stations of the Cross" which winds up the ridge. There are periodic signs to tell the s...