It’s often easy to make assumptions about living things, but nature has a way of showing us that there are always exceptions ...

After most of my maples have shed their leaves at my acreage, the eastern Larch are turning a lovely golden yellow. Although it is a conifer (cone bearing), with needles, it is not considered an ...

As November comes to a close, we find ourselves just three weeks away from the official arrival of winter. Many of us have seen our first snowflakes already, and last week, we had a wintry mix that ...

Ms. Smith writes about rural Britain. She wrote from Dunkeld, Scotland. As trees go, it wasn’t that impressive. Its branches were a little crooked, one stuck out at a right angle like a broken arm, ...