My daughter Molly goes into the woods as often as she can to forage for delicacies. On some lucky days, I get to tag along. This past weekend she introduced us all to the edible wonder of the Wisconsin Wood Violet. The violets played a starring role in a decadent dessert she made for us [...]
For quite some time now, my husband Vince and I have been working to restore a path my dad cut through the woods nearly 30 years ago. We owe our pace -- a pocket full of nails, a board or two, a few random cuts of low hanging branches -- to our lack of both [...]
Saturday afternoon, three months after we carefully and unanimously selected her to bring her fresh, festive, pine-scented self into our cabin, we returned our sweet little Christmas tree to the woods from which we'd plucked her. Owing both to her own fortitude and to our cabin's low-set thermostat, she did not drop a single pine [...]