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 […]
Published October 8, 2019 Iridescent Bird Many birds are colorful, but few can rival hummingbirds. The colors are from both pigment in the plumage, and also structural, with […]
Published September 29, 2015 Monarch Migration In terms of migratory drama, monarchs are the diminutive wildebeests of the sky. They are the only butterflies that make a two-way […]
Published September 13, 2015 Blue Smoke In the middle of the day the Blue Ridge Mountains look green, but at sunrise and sunset, when viewed from a distance, […]