I have recently returned to Maine from a long trip across the nation, visiting my family in Illinois and escorting my best friend to school in Colorado. I'll be spending the next few Tree of the Week entries discussing some characteristic Midwestern and Rocky Mountain trees. I begin this week with one from the West, a tree whose montane habitat is ( Read more... )

As you may have noticed, I didn't post a second plant two weeks ago. Or one last week. But instead of continually backdating my posts until the week I finally get the wherewithal to post twice, I'm going to just forge ahead and post a new plant this week. I wrote most of one last week, and I'm going to finish it up and post it this week, even ( Read more... )

Note: You will note that this plant is "of" last week. I had the entry half-written by last Friday, but didn't complete it. Since I would still like to write up a particular plant for this week, I'm just preserving it as a late posting of last week's plant. To continue...

The beginning of summer always comes as something of a shock to me. Spring is ( Read more... )