by Staff Report | May 19, 2023 | ADK Columns
By STAN ERNST One of my favorite songs is “Psycho Killer” by the Talking Heads. I can’t put my finger on it but the lyrics remind me of a guy I witnessed on a bizarre CNN Town Hall recently. Verse #1: “I can’t seem to face the facts, I’m tense and nervous, and I can’t...
by Staff Report | May 12, 2023 | ADK Columns, ADK Featured
Photograph by Joan Herrmann Cinnamon ferns have both sterile fronds and fertile spore-bearing fronds which when mature are a lovely cinnamon color. By JOAN HERRMANN For the Express Whereiwander… today it finally looks like spring in the North Country. The flowering...
by Staff Report | May 5, 2023 | ADK Columns
By STAN ERNST For the Express “Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing I was born for.” (Ernest Hemmingway) Many fishermen leave behind forensic evidence of their angling compulsion. I’ve kept nearly every fly and lure I’ve...
by Staff Report | Apr 28, 2023 | ADK Columns, ADK Featured
Photograph by Joan Herrmann You may know Erythronium americanum by its common name Trout Lily or Adder’s tongue or even Dog’s Tooth Violet; they are all the same plant. By JOAN HERRMANN For the Express Whereiwander… today sunshine and blue skies are leading me into...
by Staff Report | Apr 21, 2023 | ADK Columns
By STAN ERNST For the Express Flatlanders are quietly organizing for their annual ADK migration. The arrival of flatlanders up north is as inevitable as Canada geese, hummingbirds, monarch butterflies, and blue whales. Flatlander’s a deprecating term describing a...
by Staff Report | Apr 14, 2023 | ADK Columns, ADK Featured
Photograph by Joan Herrmann The male wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) have “thawed out” and have begun singing to entice the wood frog females. By JOAN HERRMANN For the Express Whereiwander… while refilling the bird feeders this past week I heard that melodic sound for the...
