Burning Silo

This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for awhile. It’s about the Oracle Tree on the Sandstone Island Trail at Charleston Lake Provincial Park. And no, that’s not an official name — but simply one that seems to fit this venerable old tree. While hiking, we’ve stopped to visit […]

You’re wandering along an overgrown trail, constantly scanning the vegetation for moths, butterflies, other insects and spiders. An odd swollen knot on the branch of a small tree catches your eye. It’s a little lighter than the rest of the bark — sort of mottled, probably with the same lichen that’s growing in […]

Just a reminder to all invertebrate junkies — both bloggers and readers.
The 10th edition of the Circus of the Spineless invertebrate blog carnival will be taking place at the end of June over at Science & Sensibility which is based in New Zealand. If you have an invertebrate post that you’d like […]

Just a short note before I go on to post my main piece for the day. Over the weekend, I noticed that quite a few of you have “arrived” here at the Burning Silo blog by linking to it from my Magick Canoe website (this shows up on my blog stats counter). I’m […]

In this morning’s earlier post about the Black-billed Cuckoo, I mentioned having found two “new” insects during yesterday’s evening walk here at the farm. Before they slip away and become temporarily forgotten in the growing assortment of images that are piling up in my drive, I wanted to post at least one of them. […]