Tag: fall
Halloween brings boon for U.S. retailers
Halloween spending is estimated to reach $6.9 billion in 2013.
Learn to grow giant pumpkins at Feb. 16 seminar
CANFIELD, Ohio -- The Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers will hold a giant pumpkin growing seminar Feb. 16 at the Millcreek MetroParks-McMahon Hall, one...
Halloween boo (hoo)
This Halloween was the first in 15 Halloweens that I had no little ones to force into a ridiculous costume and cart around town....
Autumn’s splendor restores my soul
Somehow a notice went out a week ago to all the blue jays in Illinois that the acorns on (what I think is) a...
Why do leaves change colors before they fall?
The science behind fall's beauty: Why do leaves turn colors? Why do they fall from trees, anyway?
Some clean four-letter words for fall
The phrase "four-letter word" has a bad reputation, for obvious reasons. But there are good four-letter words, too. Here are a few four-letter verbs...
Attention birders: Fall migration is beginning
The fall bird migration actually begins in July. Along East Coast beaches, shorebirds that nested in the Arctic begin showing up along coastlines in...
Penn State ecology expert says warm, wet weather may dampen fall...
For more than two decades, Marc Abrams, professor of forest ecology and physiology at Penn State, has studied how seasonal precipitation and temperature influence timing and intensity of fall colors in central Pennsylvania.
Scott Shalaway: Looking back to 9/11; nature is the place to...
Ten years ago, in the aftermath of 9/11, I wrote about nature's September highlights. I touched on fall colors, shorter days, cooler nights, and the migration of birds and monarch butterflies
