Published August 20, 2015 Night Magic The Polyphemus moth is a giant silk moth, named appropriately since the wingspan averages 6 inches and can be even greater. Though […]
Published July 6, 2017 Rare Beauty For a few weeks in early summer, Gray’s lily brightens mountains in North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. They grow on grassy balds, […]
Published June 28, 2015 Appalachian summer Driving over the mountains from Tennessee to North Carolina today I stopped a few times to admire the summer clouds and mountains. […]
Published July 15, 2015 False hydrangea When living in the Pacific Northwest, I fell in love with this distant hydrangea relative, Deinanthe caerulea, at a local nursery. It […]