2026

Agnes and Claude On my right, the hayfield is a tall, colorful riot of fleabane and clover with milkweed accents. A pair of monarchs are celebrating the season with a dance, while birds and cicadas furnish the music. On my left, a lot of geese, out of sight in the larger of the two ponds,

Photo AlexCM Inaturalist.   It’s a world citizen. It’s perhaps the most widespread wildflower on the planet, found all over six continents and the Arctic, even on South Georgia Island, less than a thousand miles from Antarctica. In North with the Spring, Edwin Way Teale describes the wildflower thusly: “In one level valley dandelions extended

Does your father sometimes walk a trail along with you, even long after he’s gone? I invited my dad to hike with me today in the Trust’s Pappenheimer Preserve, to get a head start on Father’s Day. I wasn’t sure he would come. While loving, thoughtful, and dependable, he was somewhat of a mystery to

My heart knows what the river knows. Katie Lee (1964) My Merlin App is lighting up with migratory birds, all merrily greeting me on this spring stroll in Iron Mine Valley. These wet woods are awash with warblers. Dripping with yesterday’s rain, the earth smells fresh. The river frolics. And the beavers have built an