The end of June several of us from the office went out with a couple of professional photographers from Blackbird Studios in Lewisburg.  The first part of the day was spent at Clover Lick about 13 miles north of Marlinton where there is an old C & O depot that sits close to the [...]

The annual Christmas Bird Count in Pocahontas County, held December 29th, started off with wind at 20 – 25 mph, temperatures of 15 degrees and about 20 to 30 inches of snow. But hey that’s considerably warmer than last year.

Today is November 4, 2009.  The Charleston Gazette (page 1 D) lists this day as The Great West Virginia Flood of 1985.  Many locals around here indicate their place didn’t flood until the next day.  In either case, it is a sad day in our state’s history and is now referred to as The Great [...]

The Greenbrier River Trail has been written about by many but some thoughts occurred to me as I spent the last week walking several lengths of it with my German shepherd, Ozark.