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Wet, followed by wet, with occasional deep holes, and a 30% chance of spending the night in your truck. Got a late start on an outing yesterday with my friends Jack and Jake. We went in south on Carranza and carried on to Friendship, then down Hawkins Bridge Rd. to the bridge, and on to 563...

So, the stinkers have really been crowding the screen door the last few warm days. They wait around the outside edge until I open it to go outside for a smoke, or let the dogs out, and then they try to get past me. The site of all those stinkers perched on that screen got me thinking about a...

Thought you guys might enjoy this post and related slideshow on my blog. I've been working on assembling the images for awhile. It's sort of my response to the popularity of Jersey Shore and all the Jersey-hating I see in the media and on Internet forums. If you see any errors in the...

If I remember right, you teach guitar? Do you think the following video is real and represents an actual performance? I'm thinking it does, and I'm not sure whether to be amazed or saddened or both. Well, actually, I can't help the amazed part, so the deliberation is whether to be saddened. I...

I had a Mio 520t GPS in my truck that really served well for pines exploring, because it had every old road, railroad right of way, and actual or purported body of water. Unfortunately the internal battery crapped out, there were no map updates for five years, etc. So last Christmas my wife got...

Up in the woods off Glossy Spung yesterday, and later at Friendship, we saw a great number of burrow openings in the sand. We surmise they are created by a large burrowing insect, but we're not sure which one. I've been out in the woods at springtime many times over the last ten years, but I...

I got a kick out of this video, just because the Coyote was so close to the camera for such an extended period. Thought you guys would like it. Language is NSFW. He talks like a Canadian who lives in the woods. http://www.fazed.net/video/view/?id=917

So, yesterday was nearly a complete bust. I should have known better than to think I could actually move from north to south in NJ on Thanksgiving weekend, but I'm an idiot and tried anyway. After spending hours trying to get down the TP I finally made it to Quaker Bridge in the late afternoon...

I have some pics on my phone to go with this, but I haven't been able to find a micro sd card in the cracks at the bottom of my desk drawer, so I haven't uploaded them yet. Anyway, was out east of High Crossing on that road that runs over to Carranza south of the tracks. Came up on a clearing...

They're everywhere up here, clinging to the screens, crawling on the railings. I just smelled a weirdly awful smell and felt a tickling on my neck and found one there. I didn't think they sprayed unless threatened or crushed, but I'm guessing the bug and the smell weren't a coincidence. They're...

Well, my report of an excursion yesterday may have been overrun by actual weather events, if it is raining as steadily down south this afternoon as it is up here. Yesterday my friend Jack and I took the dogs and trucks and ventured into the area southeast of Hampton Furnace that is the normal...

So we recently became a three-car family, having picked up an '01 Sentra sedan for my oldest daughter to use for work and school. It seems like a good car so far, but it has a lot of power accessories. One of the things that surprised me when I started looking, since I hadn't bought a used...

I was out exploring west of the Delaware yesterday, and visited an abandoned property up in the hills to take photographs of the barns. Inside one of them I found an interesting sort of hoist mechanism, and although I grew up in Indiana and worked around farms and farmers, I haven't yet figured...

How is it that every spring my trees shed half a frigging ton of branches onto my acre, and yet when I look up at them they still look like trees? Is there a point at which all of the branches will have fallen off, and they will just be poles?

Took a run around the Wharton with a few guys today. Whereas the story three weeks ago was snow, snow, snow, the story today was water, water, water. We drove from Atsion out QB road and then on down Washington Rd, Penn Swamp Rd, Washington-Batsto Rd., Bulltown-Hawkin Rd., East Sandy Ridge...

I happened to catch this episode of This American Life on NPR (WHYY) on my way to the pines Sunday. I think those of you who share my fascination with abandoned buildings will also get a kick out of it. http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=199 The full episode is available on a...

After waiting years for a good snowfall to occur at the right time of the week, so that I could get down to the pines while it was still fresh, it finally happened. Sunday morning I headed down to my friend Jack's place in Cherry Hill. I was struck by the definite change in the amount of snow as...

A short afternoon trip yesterday, made necessary by ungodly traffic on the turnpike that delayed an arranged meeting with my friend Jack by over an hour. We headed south from the ranger station on QB Rd. and then peeled off on Middle to follow the Batsto down. I'll begin with the moon over the...

I've been wanting to check out the area around Maple Island ever since I first noticed it on the map several years ago. It seems like whenever we have time for an expedition we end up further east. This past Friday I took the day off and my friend Jack and I headed out to circumnavigate Maple...

I had some unexpected free time open up this past Saturday, and since the last time that happened I went up to the Gap, I decided that I was overdue for a trip south. I'd been wanting to explore the area around Baptist Road and Long Causeway some more, and in the end I wound up meandering...