Category: Joan Herrmann

Story and Photos by Joan Herrmann Whereiwander… Autumn is courtship time for many large mammals. Both deer and moose began the rutting (breeding) season about mid-September and it will continue through October and into November....

Story and Photos by Joan Herrmann Whereiwander… I am feeling a little melancholy as summer is beginning to slip away and evidence of autumn is emerging. As always, the sadness of summer lost is quickly replaced with colorful...

Story and Photos by Joan Herrmann Whereiwander… here in the Northeast we are blessed to find them in gardens, woodlands, wetlands, and roadsides. We are fortunate to also have thousands of wildflowers, hundreds of different...

Story and photographs by Joan Herrmann Whereiwander… Even though I have been enjoying, learning, and appreciating the meadow for about twenty-five years, I am always amazed at how it is never the same and is always evolving....

Photos and Story by Joan Herrmann Whereiwander… quite often I wander with children and delight in the questions of “what is that?” which I am likely to hear throughout our hike. As a naturalist, often I can easily answer each...

Story and Photographs By Joan Herrmann Whereiwander… the lyrics of a song named “A Hundred Million Miracles” sometimes repeats itself in my mind as I wander through “the meadow”. When we purchased our home in the North Country,...

Story and Photographs By Joan Herrmann Whereiwander… I shared some of my discoveries regarding dragonflies in my last column. They are probably the insect I miss the most during the late fall, early spring, and throughout the...

Story and Photographs by Joan Herrmann Whereiwander… The last week of May is usually the beginning of the emergence of one of the first species of Dragonflies of the new year. For us in the Northeast that week may welcome the...

Story and Photographs by Joan Herrmann Whereiwander… it seems like only an eye blink of time ago, that I was waiting and hoping for the buds to burst forth on trees, shrubs, and on the plants in my gardens. Today things seem to...

Photographs and Story by Joan Herrmann Whereiwander… I have seen a few butterflies already; they are among the butterflies that winter over as an adult. In our area you may have an opportunity to see the Mourning Cloak...

Story and Photograph Joan Herrmann Whereiwander… I truly love living in the “North Country”, however, it takes a bit of patient this time of year, while wishing for calendar spring to become a reality. Yesterday early morning...