It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

There is a bit of a panic right now in Missouri, especially in parks and neighborhoods where ash trees were planted decades ago -- my own ci...

I've got a problem. It's this hinoki cypress (fernspray cypress?) -- Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Filicoides'. It was a perfec...

Is there any symbol of spring more powerful than a fruit tree in blossom? Is there any thought more appealing to the winter weary shopper th...

When you have four days or more in a row of 65ºF (18ºC) temperatures in February, strange, potentially bad things start happening. Tree...

Things are so busy right now, writing these blog posts gets a lower priority -- hence the skipped days. It's a bit disappointing as I...

So many random things happen and fill up the phone storage, sometimes it's fun to just go back through and take a look at what I've ...

One of the first trees to come into flower in the St. Louis area each spring is the Bradford Pear. These trees with their full canopies of w...

Like many, our weekends are shifted one day to Sunday/Monday, and on Mondays we like to get out and do something different and fun. We didn...

I'm hoping this is my last winter trees post for this season, as surely spring is just a week or two away, right? A need to stretch...

Last weekend I was visiting my mother in the Chicago area again. Although I didn't take photos of the trip this time, I did take a hike...

A weekend of bitter cold gives way to warmer temperatures, bringing us a foggy morning and a taste of Spring later this week. For now t...

The stark beauty of Winter is often overlooked, as the clearest, prettiest days are usually the coldest. Today I've decided to post...

On Friday we took advantage of a sunny afternoon and spent a couple of hours at the St. Louis Art Museum . Before we had even gotten inside ...

I was looking through the photos on my phone this morning and realized that I had quite a few things that were worth mentioning but didn...

I noticed something momentarily exciting yesterday: What certainly must be a snake climbing high up in my pine tree! I haven't seen...

As you probably know about me already, I love Nature. Although it doesn't happen every weekend, my wife and I regularly take trips to so...

Yesterday I showed you some cactus eye-candy and the amazing crocus field at the Missouri Botanical Garden. I had never visited at this tim...

We seem to have rather abruptly transitioned into spring here in the St. Louis area, and last weekend my wife and I decided to go for a hike...

On my recent trip to Chicago , to my childhood home, I was in awe of the trees. This happens every time I visit this place, where the trees ...

The garden is finally to the point where everything is waking up, and the ones that aren't stirring, well, they most likely are not comi...