I love to walk through the woods on any occasion, but especially with my daughter Molly because she knows things. Yesterday, we went foraging -- she for morel mushrooms, garlic mustard and stinging nettles and me for stories. While she came up empty handed, which is good, she said, because garlic mustard and stinging nettles [...]
"Well,I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person." --Sylvia Plath Some snowfalls land gently, like a lace tablecloth on an old, scared dining room table. That's how Sunday morning's snow seemed to me. It approached without fanfare before dawn, tidied up the [...]
We own a quiet chunk of heaven in Wisconsin's Northwoods and, when we go tramping through it, I like to imagine what life might have been like there before we came along. Thanks to a thoroughly researched paper Molly recently wrote for her University of Wisconsin Botany Class, we now have a pretty good idea. [...]