Some notes and sketch of a yellow warbler nest at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, the sketch appeared in The Ohio Cardinal  a publicati...

Northern catalpa ( Catalpa speciosa )

American beech ( Fagus grandifolia ) - unmistakable cigar-shaped terminal bud!

Twig of witch-hazel ( Hamamelis virginiana ) illustrated in mid-December

Top to Bottom: red osier dogwood ( Cornus stolonifera ), pawpaw ( Asimina triloba ), musclewood ( Carpinus caroliniana ), Eastern cott...

More winter twigs... Left to Right - black oak ( Quercus velutina ), bitternut hickory ( Carya cordiformis ), tuliptree ( Liriodendron tul...

For the past 7 or so years I have enjoyed surveying for and learning about freshwater mussels, one of the most interesting and at-risk gro...

Here is a trio of winter oak twigs white ( Q. alba ), black ( Q. velutina ) and bur ( Q. macrocarpa )

A common sight on the forest floor in the fall months, black walnut ( Juglans nigra ) nut pieces.

Zanthozylem americanum or prickley-ash is a native midwestern shrub.