All Outdoors
Ouch — both literally and metaphorically.
I will say pointedly that thistle has some sharp issues. To look at this plant, one might think of a...
While most of us know that it is not polite to spit, there are some who refuse to follow even this basic tenet of manners.
I have been very blessed lately, and I bet that you have been too.
It is not an epidemic of good fortune, but rather an overabundance of pollen...
The fields are blushing.
It is for good reason that the meadows are red-faced. Blame it on embarrassment, but more likely it is sorrel that is...
They’re back, we hope. Within a week or two, the nymphs may emerge from the ground where they have hibernated for 17 years, occasionally sipping on...
I can “azure” you that it is finally spring.
It wasn’t a little birdie that told me; rather, a small butterfly. This butterfly has all the reason...
If you blinked last week, then you might have missed it. The shadbush bloomed.
Shadbush is a quick-change artist: its flowers are here one...
The ability of pigweed to grow cannot be denied. It grows just about anywhere and may grow to be six feet tall. Last May we discovered it in our...
I guess that it is true that you can’t have it all. Wood anemones should know this adage well since they lack much.
The other night I had the strangest sensation that I was sleeping with Dracula.
Morning brought not the prince of darkness, but another vampire-...
There are many wonderful sayings regarding the first blooms of spring.
It seemed like a harmless sort: a symbol of purity and hope, a cancer crusader and fundraiser, and beautiful harbinger of spring; but, if the truth...