“The 12 Days of Christmas” is a song my in-laws love to hate. Unfortunately for them, it’s a song I’ve always loved. (Ross, I await your text message.) Although I enjoy it, I’ve never thought about ...

Partridges live in Eastern Washington, the nation’s No. 1 pear producer. Even so, you will probably never see a partridge in a pear tree. How could that be? After all, the repetitive first line of the ...

Many people consider “The Twelve Days of Christmas" to be a fun, non-religious song celebrating the Christmas season. The song tells of 12 gifts -- one given each day to someone’s true love throughout ...

Have you ever wondered, while singing The Twelve Days of Christmas, what a partridge in a pear tree looks like? This year, I decided to find out. We have two species of partridge in the UK – the ...

"On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me, two turtledoves and a partridge in a pear tree." The words are familiar, but if you know your Lowcountry birds, you'll realize that whoever ...