Yesterday when Rob and I were walking around Eshqua Bog yesterday and found many new leaves already cut by insects and fallen to the ground. Leaves of American Beech (Fagus…
The leaves of the American Beech (Fagus grandifolia) always amaze me. They have been unfolding these past few weeks. In another few they’ll have provided food to many creatures and…
The light was a bit flat and the greens are still struggling to fill but the company today was great and the locations—Greenbank’s Hollow and Peacham—stunningly beautiful. I can plainly…
The other day I opened my big mouth and said something really dumb: “I don’t like Crab Apple trees!” I did qualify it, but especially this time of year saying…
Much of the world does not want to be seen by us. It gets along just fine without our seeing it. One such gorgeous creature is the Virginia Rail (Rallus…
I’ve recently made a delightful, new friend. Earl is 10 years old. He is also crazy about trees and wants to know everything there is to know about them. What…
In the past three days I’ve been involved with planting eleven trees! What fun. Six big ones in the downtown area and five raised in our local Tree Board nursery…
For as many flowers as I’ve looked at I sometimes wonder if I’ve ever seen them!
Obviously I’m in love with flowers. Who would not be?! The see beauty like this renews my soul. Years ago I discovered the backs of many flowers have a special…
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