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Welcome to Spring!

Dear Friends, Welcome to Spring!  Here in the Adirondacks the creeks rush with snowmelt released from the more northern waterways; Canada and Snow geese call from the sky as they wing their way to summer ponds and lakes, courting along the way.  Robins sing in the cherry tree, inviting us into each new morning and in the evening,  we listen for the woodcock’s “peent” as he too calls for a mate to share the season with. Flower emerge from dark,...

Skunk Cabbage ~ Symplocarpus foetidus

It may be mid-April, but this year, true Spring is yet to open here in the foothills of the Adirondacks.  Snow still lies deep in the frozen woodlands; cold winds and icy paths are a daily reminder that winter is holding on. So we dream. We dream of the first wild plants that emerge here in the Northeast, once a hint of spring rides in on the air.  And one of the earliest and wildest herbs I know, in her...