Petey will never be a learned fellow, but he’s a pretty nice fella.
Tufted evening primrose (Oenothera caespitosa) is beautiful wildflower of the uplands. And though seeing it on a summer hike sounds hot and grueling, it does bloom into the fall. If you want one for your own habitat, it is grown commercially, so look for it in a good little nursery. But I do hope you stumble upon it on an early morning hike in the hills.
There is a road across the grassland and I still go there for stories. I suspect that everyone needs a road or trail or...
I like to say the name Phlox. I think it’s the letters p, h and l that make it fun, and yes, it’s probably...
When I was a boy vultures were called buzzards. It’s an interesting common name that came across the ocean with early British colonists who...