Pocahontas County Fare

2011 was a sadly inauspicious year for trees on our ridge. The stag-horn sumac trees did not fare well in the summer, and this happened i...

My blogging habit crashed and burned last year, but I continued to take sumac pictures for Tree Year 2011 , at least until summer's dry...

After several warm days that made the lilac and rose bushes pop new leaves, winter weather returned. This is the same snowstorm that cau...

It's snowing again today, and the sumac buds are tight shut still. Like other smooth-barked tree species here, the sumacs have l...

Yesterday's sky did not promise spring, and this morning we had snow and sleet. Robins have been visiting the sumac fruits, but the m...

Here's my latest post for The Tree Year. (I think Das Baumjahr has a better ring to it...I may switch.) The sun came out to make ...

Here are more surprises from my mom's box of Kodachrome slides. 1954 is a guess--my parents lived in this house from about 1952 to 195...

Marvin and Sherry clued me in to this interesting project, The Tree Year . Here's how it works: How to start: Pick a tree – eit...