Published October 28, 2016 Rushmore Anniversary Mount Rushmore is an iconic national monument, completed 75 years ago this month. Originally conceived in 1923 as a tourist attraction, the […]
Published September 2, 2015 Rose of Sharon I have several of these shrubs in my yard in assorted colors, so I think of them as Rose of Ruth, though […]
Published May 11, 2018 "Dances with the Daffodils" On a visit to the New York Botanical Garden a couple weeks ago, I managed to hit the peak of daffodil bloom. […]
Published May 28, 2015 Flower dancing Unlike honeybees the bumblebees don’t actually do any formal dances to report food sources to other bees. But this particular bee appeared […]