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 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…
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…
“As long as this exists,” I thought, “and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies, while this lasts, I cannot be unhappy.” The best remedy for…
The temperature here was 24F this morning. Many plants froze hard and many, but not all, will recover without damage. The natural world is so attuned to the sun and…
Yes, as our friend Julia reminds, it really works to focus my attention on “awe and wonder.” Each day overflows. I’ve worried all week—one full of cold, rain, wind and…
These two images were from last week, both showing a Willow (Salix) of some sort as it transitions from flowering to producing seed and the leaves begin to emerge. Both…
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