Soon after I downloaded the Seek app on my phone, I started scanning whatever I found as I walked through our woods. Some names were familiar, but this one stopped me. Striped Maple? Of course, there were the stripes on the trunks that I had never noticed before. But maple? The floppy leaves didn’t hang […]
Category Archives: Species
Winter is Coming
The junco can be hard to spot on the driveway stones, just like the coming of winter can be hard to spot among the warm days of October. But a bit of movement out of the corner of my eye can be a clue that Fall is turning inevitably into something else. At first there […]