The sugar maples ( Acer saccharum ) are leafing out and the winter wrens are singing!  Colored pencil.

Two of my favorite spring images - leatherwood ( Dirca palustris ) in flower and a magnolia warbler!  Colored pencil.

Yesterday while spraying invasive lesser celandine ( Ranunculus ficaria ) I saw my first jack-in-the-pulpit ( Arisaema triphyllum ) breakin...

Spring is upon us and based on the flowers of leatherwood it is 26 days earlier than last year and 11 days earlier than 2010. I was ...

The pin oak ( Quercus palustris ) in our front yard is breaking bud!

I was back in Illinois this past weekend and took a bit of time to walk down to the local heron rookery.   One year I counted around 120...

Last week on February 27th I noticed that almost all of the skunk cabbage ( Symplocarpus foetidus ) in the fen had been ransacked by a raft...

One thing that I find interesting about winter twigs are leaf scars; in some species they are incredibly consistant while in others such as...

Alternate-leaf dogwood ( Cornus alternifolia ) is a less than common native shrub or small tree in this area of Ohio.  I see C.alternifolia...

Unfortunately there are a bunch of non-native invasive plant species that are impacting our natural areas – two of the more common ones are...