Behind my house is a blue spruce, at the tip top of which is the favorite perch of my local black-chinned hummingbird, Mr. Big. Mr. Big is probably more than one bird, but I call them that because the ...

The morning I wrote this column the rain gauge on the deck read 4 inches and it was still raining. The rain was welcomed because it had been so hot and dry. And by the time this is published we may ...