Venus is so close at the moment that you might be able to see the horns, also called cusps.

The year in weather saw average temperatures and rainfall, but heavy snowfall.

The Vineyard received a total of 36 inches of snow this year, almost a foot above average. A huge blizzard impacted most of the northeast corridor back in February. Boston received 25 inches of drifting snow, but only five inches fell in Edgartown. This remains the worst storm of the year, and on the mainland it approached the worst blizzard of the decade.

The state Department of Agricultural Resources will allow comment until Feb. 18 on utility's plan to use herbicides to control vegetation under power lines.

A bottle tree is not something botanical you might find at the Polly Hill Arboretum, or in any of our Island woodlands for that matter.

Recently someone asked me to identify the birds in three verses of The Twelve Days of Christmas. What are turtle doves, French hens and calling birds?

The January page of the new Felix Neck wildlife calendar is off by a day and they want to replace the page with the corrected version.