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Chances are, you are surrounded by mugwort ( Artemisia vulgaris ), a sage-fragrant and palatable herb which is rarely used in most kitche...

I like the squirrel. Goodlooking fur, fluffy tail and the stricken little clasped paw. And the squirrel annoys me, of course. Hogs the bi...

It has been raining. It has been cool. After the summerish humidity that came before, it has been wonderful. Forests and parks and garden...

Sunday evening's soundtrack in Harlem: Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall (Ella Fitzgerald and The Inkspots). It is raining, and i...

The late May air has become muggy prematurely. Dusk lingers, and by 8pm neither the candles nor the solar jars have been lit. The terra...

Perhaps heading to Pelham Bay Park, on the Bronx side of the Long Island Sound on the first warm weather holiday weekend of the year was ...

Union Square is green at last. The fiddleheads of ostrich ferns ( Mateuccia struthiopteris ) are still at the market, driven down ...