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All in a day’s work
Published: 2012-08-16 19:55:27One of the more interesting and entertaining early descriptive accounts of the southern mountains is contained in a diary kept by surveyor John Strother. In 1799, he was appointed one of the surveyors for determining a portion of the boundary between Ten...
Read MoreEnchanting the summer evening
Published: 2012-08-10 15:06:11No late summer wildflower is more widely recognized than evening primrose. The four broad yellow petals that open in the evening and often linger into mid-morning on overcast days are a dead giveaway. If you’re looking for the plant, you won’t have t...
Read MoreWalnut toxicity
Published: 2012-08-10 14:02:11The walnut trees along the creek where we live are exhibiting a bumper crop this year. At night we are starting to hear their fruits dropping with heavy thuds on the ground or like depth charges into the water. Hopefully, one of them won’t conk me on t...
Read MoreSaying farewell to summer
Published: 2012-08-08 20:23:51It’s mid-September ... late summer is sliding toward early autumn. The end of summer officially arrives with the autumnal equinox of Sept. 23, when the sun crosses the celestial equator going north to south. One senses this transition in the cool mist-...
Read MoreCardinal flower among the most popular in U.S.
Published: 2012-08-08 14:04:01The late summer wildflower season has arrived. Along roadsides and woodland edges some of our more robust native plants are now coming into full bloom. By “robust” I mean high growing and stout. These would include wild lettuce, common mullein, Joe P...
Read MoreSweet bubby bush
Published: 2012-08-06 19:25:58I recently received an email from a reader who asked, “Could you write about the sweet bubby bush? That’s the only name I know it by. Old plant, my mom loves it. I’d like to plant one. Haven’t seen it in a long time.” . I replied that I would e...
Read MoreShrills in the night
Published: 2012-08-02 19:34:22When I was growing up in the tobacco-farming portion of the southern Virginia piedmont, there were many haunted outbuildings throughout the region. My friends and I knew they were haunted because we would nightly, from early spring into early fall, hear ...
Read MoreZeke was a friend I won’t forget
Published: 2012-08-01 14:19:05Dogs have been a part of my life since I was a boy. My first dog — part one thing, part another — was named Rascal. I was a sophomore in college when Rascal had to be put to sleep. Other dogs have followed: cocker spaniels; a long line of beagles, se...
Read MoreBeauty of the cardinal flower
Published: 2012-07-30 14:22:16The fall wildflower season has arrived. Along roadsides and woodland edges some of our more robust native plants are now coming into full bloom. By “robust” I mean high growing and stout. These would include wild lettuce, common mullein, Joe Pye weed...
Read MoreUncovering winter’s delight
Published: 2012-07-30 13:25:43Some trees that might be difficult to locate during the spring through fall foliage season become more apparent in winter. This is the instance with sweetgum, which holds its leaves into early winter after most other deciduous trees have shed theirs. Int...
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