The Appalachians: America’s First Frontier

Today’s featured mountain range is…The Appalachians! America’s First Western Frontier. And…Our very own backyard. šŸ™‚     The Appalachian Mountains are the largest and most significant mountain range east of the Mississippi River. They are a very old range of mountains (nearly 500 million years), very much worn down by the passage of time, and this accounts both for their […]

Monarch Butterfly Migration

Recently we went to Southport, NC to celebrate Sylvia’s birthday (Sylvia insists on having a birthday EVERY single year.) While we were there, we caught the Monarch Butterfly migration as it was passing through. Though it is far less well known than bird migrations, Monarch Butterflies do migrate South to warmer climates during the winter. In the Western US these […]

  OH, BOUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Welcome to the New Blog! We areĀ  recently back from a trip to Southport, NC celebrating Sylvia’s annual birthday! She insists on havingĀ  birthday every single year. Our BecauseItzThere on WordPress is now open for business, but the old legacy site will stay out there for a while…until Google shuts it down or reclaims the storage […]