After a long day of photographing wildlife, columnist Bill Danielson spots a porcupine munching on flower buds high in a ...

Butterflies might get all the credit for being the pretty ones, but moths can definitely share the spotlight. Some of these ...

Boxelder Forget what you’ve heard about boxelder trees (Acer negundo) being weed trees. ‘Kelly’s Gold’ is reason enough to ...

It was the end of an exciting day of nature photography and as I pulled into my driveway I figured that I was done for the ...

Almost everything is fresh to a five year old: the dandelion growing through the sidewalk crack or the swarm of ants ...

It wasn’t until the 1960s and ‘70s when interest in Japanese gardens began to develop. These special maples again caught the eyes of enthusiasts. Now there are perhaps 1,000 cultivars in existence, ...

"They converted all of the maple sap into maple sugar, which they could store in their birch bark containers ... that sap is changing to get ready to put buds and leaves on the trees and that reflects ...

The bark of a tree is its own protection against the weather. While we shrug on a coat when it’s wet or cold, a tree will grow its own to insulate itself, keeping moisture out when it’s ...

The large maple tree stood closest to our backyard in a line of six trees marking a neighbor’s property line. It likely had been planted roughly 50 or so years ...

We recently returned from a trip to Virginia to visit family and spent time being “Leaf Peepers.” There’s something magical ...