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Betty Scholtz, 29 April 2011 [Update, 5/7/20: Obituary by Penelope Green in The New York Times ] Betty Scholtz has died. A tree cra...

An accidental selfie. I hate selfies. And if you'd told me just a few weeks ago that I'd be making homespun videos in our kitchen...

Cherries are pretty. But crabapples are luscious. Crabapples also smell wonderful. Like storms coming. Like hail on the ground. Li...

The trout lilies ( Erythronium americanum ) are beginning to open in the woods on Staten Island. Ephemeral, native, best appreciated up ...

The callery pear tree across the street is in peak bloom and its notoriously weak branches bend down heavily with white blossom. We avoid...

Sometimes pots and pans bang from the windows. Sometimes they don't. Our neighborhood has caught on late to the 7pm, two-minute clap ...

On a blue-sky afternoon last week I hopped into the car. Twenty-six minutes later  - thanks to the new normal of light traffic in New Yor...