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Almost every year I think "That peach tree's gone to come no more." I turn my back on it, I blink, and it's borne peaches ...

A Nashery is a poem consisting of mostly but not always rimed couplets in irregular metre, the form most often used by Ogden Nash. Not all o...

Earth-shaker, air-, soil-, people-mover attack the great pines of Vancouver... No. This is not going to be a Nashery because Nasheries are f...

This phenology post is brought to you by a sight I've not seen before, in my fifty-plus years, and don't expect to see again. Tree...

(A version of this one appeared on Associated Content, years ago, and has been rescued by a funder. You need to support this web site, using...

Title: Apples Author: Peter Wynne Date: 1975 Publisher: Hawthorn Books ISBN: 0-8015-0340-X Length: 275 pages plus 5-page ind...

It's been a while since this web site has displayed a phenology post. There's been a reason for that. I've not been out in natur...

After a week that felt like July, the past two days have felt like early May again: overnight lows in the fifties (Fahrenheit). I'm lovi...

On May 13, 2014, I published a photo of a pawpaw blossom on Bubblews. I took the picture with a camera phone. After e-mailing it to myself,...

The big phenology news this week is that, although a warm January and bitterly cold February altered the normal timetable on which leaf and ...

After Thursday's cliffhanger, I should probably begin by explaining that my lights stayed on. I was actually pretty comfortable during t...

(Reclaimed from Bubblews, where this "Bubble" appeared on 10.13.14. Topic credit:  BeaShe  , a.k.a.  +Protecto Shell  , respo...

(Reclaimed from Bubblews, where it appeared on October 14, 2014. Image credit: Marcelo Coimbra at Morguefile.com.) Relatives in Flori...

(Reclaimed from Bubblews, where this appeared on October 4, 2014. Image credit: Earl53 at Morguefile.) A little rain yesterday usher...

(Topic credit:  Jabo  credited  Jhunt  for this idea:  http://www.bubblews.com/news/6302005-jabo039s-what-i-see  . Image credit: Morguefi...