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…
Two Man Crosscut
Mack lends me his 6′ crosscut saw to bring some work to a celebration this coming weekend…
End of Summer foliage
Kathleen Weber killing it with a webbed chartreuse Begonia paired with Joseph’s Coat in a pot along the creek on Old Carversville Rd.
Large-scale Frogs for Doylestown Parking Day bamboo arrangements
Working with Adam Lichty of Silver Heart Fitness to get it done!
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.
Fall is for planting !
Working with the Land Stewards (aka H. Moser) in Gladwyne, PA planting 84″ Nellie Stevens Holly as a screen buffer along a quiet street.