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One good brush fire and the next county downwind would smell like a reggae concert.

Ha! I watched my son (he was about 10 at the time) chase a blue dasher up and down a trail adjacent to a lake only to have it land on his hat. I'll have to see if I can dig up that picture. John, please do post pictures! Your photos are incredible, I look forward to seeing them. I'm glad...

They're a blast, but be forewarned, it's another level of frustration at times. I told a friend of mine over the summer that odeing and atheism are mutually exclusive, in that you can only believe for so long that there isn't a higher power pointing and laughing at you. :D Sometimes the stars...

Yesterday my sons and I were fishing in the Pine Barrens, and we came across a few dragonflies, which brought me to write this post. Every year it seems like my sons and I have a theme in the outdoors. We've been through herping, birding, botanizing, bushcraft, fishing, and at the beginning of...

BURN IT! (The tick, not the tree) :D

It's hard for me to comment on this without becoming infuriated. On the one hand, I (obviously) do wish people would be more responsible and have more respect for the land that we all share. On the other hand, it would be nice if the people who manage the land have more consideration for how...

No worries brother. About those snakes, I need to get out to the Pine Barrens to see some herps! I'm not going anywhere near Cumberland County Bayshore until those midges and greenheads disappear, so interior barrens sounds like a good idea. ;)

Beautiful! Looks like you had a great day out with your daughter! Thank you for sharing, and best wishes for many more happy times together. BTW the plant that you asked about is Goat's rue (Tephrosia virginiana).

Sue thank you for the ID! Regarding tick species in the Pine Barrens, I've also pulled deer ticks off of me in Medford (about 1 mile from the transition zone) and IIRC also at Bass River S.F. Still after all of these years I'm banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why ticks...

Hi Bob, he picked it up in Mercer County. IIRC Hunterdon County, just north of us, was where the longhorned was first reported. The lighting in the second pic I shared didn't really capture the appearance of the nymph very well, the first one is a better shot of it I think.

I pulled this tick nymph off of my son this afternoon and for the first few minutes thought it was a dog tick, but looking closer something didn't match. I looked at the pics of the nymph for the Asian longhorned tick and I don't think this is far off, but maybe Sue Gremlin, Bob, Manumuskin or...

I knew this one as beach rose. I saw a patch of it on dunes a few years ago on Sandy Hook.

Really sad to see the land ripped up like that. Regarding Ocean Breeze, my In-Laws live in Atlantic Hills. It's a nice area. One of my first -real- girlfriends grew up near Ocean Acres before she moved to Toms River (we dated in 1991-1992, after she had moved). We used to go visit her friends...

Off topic from tobacco, but just today I started seeds for our first crops of the 2021 garden: collard greens and cabbage. I'll have them under grow-lights for about a month and then start hardening off! Oh man I feel the same way you do about the end of life. I smoked from about 1985 until...

Congratulations! Merry Christmas and God Bless.

Just read about this and I came on to see if this was already posted. Terrible.

That sounds great, thank you!

My boys and I have fished since they were very small, but they were really bitten by the fishing bug back in 2019! I never fly fished before, however, and they showed interest, so we learned to fly fish and tie flies together last year (starting with those basic Orvis kits). We never fly fished...

...and THIS is why this community is amazing! Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.

Hey Rednek350, we've eaten channel cats before but I thought there were mercury advisories for most of the Pine Barrens? That's good info about the Delaware. We want to get out there next year more often. My sons are just crazy about catfishing. Give them a pond with bullhead in it and they're...