Every so often, unseasonably mild weather will rouse butterflies from hibernation earlier than usual in the Inland Northwest. But in January? That’s plain extraordinary.

Every winter, a marvelous spectacle occurs as hundreds of thousands of butterflies travel south across Taiwan in one of the ...

The other morning, it was just cool enough to put on a jacket for the first time this “year.” Yes, that sounds strange to me, too. I suppose every profession has a different start to their “year” — ...