I wanted to share that many of the photographs I made yesterday, as is always the case, ended up in the digital trash bucket. It is easy to think otherwise…
Just plain hot today. It felt like June or even July. Buds continue to swell and spring bulbs and weeds are popping up. Reports of birds and butterflies back 20-30…
I led a tree pruning workshop today and, as I often do, fell in love with the trees all over again. The relationship with trees in an urban environment, in…
Clear night last night with a nearly full moon and this morning the ground was covered with frost. But the sun is so obviously a spring one, bright against the…
To paraphrase Ratty from Wind in the Willows, “nothing is so fine as messing about on snowshoes.” Rob logged our walk on a GPS. As we were packing up, he…
Light, really light, by 6am. When did that happen? Temperature was -4F but the sky as clear as a bell. My two hiking pals both game to walk a new piece…
Today overflowed. Catching up with friends via email. Two new books on lichens. A great meeting. A long walk with my friend and photo buddy, Rob. Even if the walk…
My friend Rob and I hiked on snowshoes in an old pasture now overgrown with trees, mostly White Pine (Pinus strobus), Big-toothed Poplar (Populus grandidentata) and a number of invasive species. Along…
When summer’s leaves fall, hidden treasures are revealed. What a delight seeing nests that had been hidden in plain view just a month before. Or the shape of a tree’s…
I had the great honor today to stand with my sister under a great spreading limbs of an amazing White Oak (Quercus alba), a 300+ year old beauty known as…
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