All Outdoors
This little plant is the apple of my eye.
Found in wet meadows and woods, May apple beckons the botanist with its unique appearance, ancient lore...
Money doesn’t grow on trees. It does, however, grow from flowering plants -- if you know where to look.
You would have to be an ass to refuse a taste of donkey rhubarb.
Donkey rhubarb is delicious, though not a relative of the garden variety many of...
When we think of singing, we usually think of people or birds. In the spring we may think of pinkletinks, but we usually think of them as chorusing...
Fowler’s Modern English Usage takes a hard line.
Just try to pluralize the word octopus; I dare you. Say “octopodes” and Fowlers calls you “...
Coltsfoot is a horse of a different color. This early spring flower resembles a dandelion, but don’t be fooled. Its resemblance is superficial. The...
The world can be divided into two categories: The haves and have-nots.
The same is the case in nature and, more specifically, in mammals. In the...
We all have a cross to bear, though some of us hide ours better than others.
Pinkletinks wear theirs on their backs. The spring peepers, one of...
Todd McGrain, artist, advocate and film maker, never wants us to forget the species that we have lost. His film, The Lost Bird Project, which...
Rick Bausman, the well-known Island musician, will not be the only one diligently drumming this spring. His penchant for percussion is shared by...
It is a strange-looking plant growing in a wetland beside the road — a three to four-foot stump that is maybe three-quarter inches in diameter all...
For plant lovers, the witching hour is nigh.
The wild women of yore will not be flying in on their broomsticks, though it will soon be a time to...