No need to splurge at the florist for a centerpiece to decorate your Thanksgiving table. Look around outdoors and you’ll find all you need. Prairie plantings abound with stiff-stemmed flowers topped with interesting dried seedheads. The prickly tops of spent purple coneflowers are classic. The rattling pods of wild indigo hang on the stems all [Continue]
Last summer I spent an hour a week walking around in circles on baseball diamonds, staring at the ground. People probably thought I was a crazy person. What I was really doing was biosurveillance. No, I wasn’t wearing a hazmat suit or carrying high-tech spy equipment. I needed only my eyes and a pencil and [Continue]
In September, my dear great-aunt Rose passed away at age 100. All the plants at her funeral were the same and my aunt Karen, who made the funeral arrangements, had ordered twenty so that each of the cousins could take one home. Bets were made back and forth as to who could keep their plant [Continue]