Uncategorized Sinking Creek by user|Published April 26, 2015 Trees reflecting in Sinking Creek in Tennessee create an impressionist view of the forest and sky
Published November 3, 2015 Wild and Woolly Winter In 1948 Dr. Curran, then curator of insects at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History, began a tradition of traveling […]
Published August 15, 2015 Raindrops phlox On a rainy evening these raindrops fell on the pink petals of a phlox flower in my garden. They clung to the […]
Published September 1, 2015 Stick insects Stick insects, known locally in North Carolina as walking sticks, belong to the order Phasmidae, derived from the Greek phasma, meaning phantom. […]
Published May 3, 2016 Abundant Azaleas I am named for my father’s sister, Ruth Happel Smiley, who for most of her life worked on the gardens at Mohonk […]