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Mayapple Calendar

4/10 Mayapple buds pop up on my youngest daughter’s 1st birthday ! Probably could not have timed that any other way if we tried…

The white stripe of March’s last lion

The worm trails I see everywhere now are soon the fate of my favorite Ash in Veteran’s Park woods. It is pictured here twisting up thru the canopy and painted top to bottom on the North East side of the trunk.

Art in Decay

The way trees move on to their next job in the forest is slow & subtle. But the details can be dramatic up close. Stained by weather & time, unrepeatable except in that crucible of exposure.

A Hole to call Home…

Seems like this time of year, a clear line of sight opens up your mindset a bit too. We see a bit further out, and we think about horizons. And we see where the cozy places are in the woods more clearly. Our homes become refuge, if we are lucky…

Serious Gold

Ginkgo time of year! Now while my favorite golden Fall color is always Hickory, with its ruddy & muddy patches, the Maidenhair tree hits a clear yellow…that kind of lit from the inside sort of glow. And all at once, then they drop all at once. Nice to get your…

Princeton Paw Paw Patch

Rocky slope above a creek. Slow to grow, because of the steep drainage and mature hardwood canopy? Or just a young planting? It is a wide and fully suckered patch, just no, surviving older stems…remnants, but nothing still standing.