A cool breeze and more moderate temperatures greet us as we leave our hotel. Before…

There is no way getting around it: it is hot. After spending four hours being…

Time for another episode of Erik & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (on bikes). Yesterday we landed…

A woodchuck is perched on the woodpile underneath the Fringetree surveying the possibilities. The hostas…

I love lupines but they don’t love me (or more accurately my soil). I was…

The native fringetree sitting in my back yard is one of my favorites. Between its…

Christmas in May! Or that’s what you can think with amaryllis bulbs blooming in our…

Everything is flowering in Sunken Forest. This microclimate hosts many native trees and shrubs that…

This appears to be the year of the rhododendron as all of ours are spectacularly…