Anyone who owns a “Flora of …” field guide has surely noticed that the Genus Carex can easily chew-up 50 plus pages of dichotomous key with...

Yesterday I found my first morel of 2012.  It was a tiny grey morel that measured less than 2cm tall.  Here is a sketch of one of the...

Cerulean warbler ( Setophaga cerulean ) is a small warbler that often forages and nests high in the forest canopy especially on the edg...

Two sketches from last April – this is about the stage we are at right now – still running 2-3 weeks early.   However, the weather has cool...

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...