Anyone can hike on a warm day, surrounded by birdsong and verdant meadows of wildflowers. The world is full of sights and sounds. But in the winter? That sounds ridiculous.
Tag: Nature
The Wonderfully Named Fungi
Growing in forests, the appearance of jelly fungi ranges from ears sprouting from a tree trunk to globs of brain tissue smeared on a branch.
The Not So Plain Plains Onion
Of our state’s six species of native onion, the Plains onion, though small in stature, has the largest, and in my opinion, most elegant flowers.
Reflecting on the Crown-tipped Coral
Two words best describe the bizarrely-shaped coral mushrooms — “really cool.”
Saving Saltwort
The state endangered plant saltwort grows in salt marshes in Lancaster County and nowhere else in our state.
Our Family Prairie
Back in 1960, my grandpa bought 160 acres of farm land near Stockham – a couple miles north of the farmstead where he and my grandma were raising my dad and his two sisters.