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In leaf-littered deciduous woodlands, and on warm slopes, the ramps are rising. Allium tricoccum , harbinger of a native spring. Often the o...

There is a block of earth in front of our building. I must measure it. I'm guessing about two feet by three feet? So that's six squa...

 It is spring. And here is a gift of quiet hellebores. And pickled eggs, with a wintercress (Cardamine hirsuta) nest. They are destined for ...

Just yesterday I said that our native spring is weeks away. What was I thinking? Today I saw this beautiful silver maple ( Acer saccharinum ...

On the Monday after the late February blizzard (which was Sunday the 22nd into Monday the 23rd), we walked in the woods of Prospect Park, wh...

 The acquisition of windowsill happiness.  Daffodils were being sold in bucketsful on 7th Avenue at Carroll Street, a 30-minute neighborhood...

On a winter whim we drove out to Breezy Point. A summer evening haunt. Quiet water, lots of shorebirds, a wide sky. Stars, as we walk back i...