• Girdling roots were the better indicator. Photos courtesy of the author.
    August 15, 2024

    Pictures of browning needles and adelgids did not tell the full story. In early April 2023, I received a call from a Partners in Planting program board member I had served with. He was wondering if I would [...]

  • ear
    July 8, 2024

    Photo by and courtesy of yunus-tug/unsplash. I’m not the man I used to be! At 67 years of age and retired, I still tend to try to work like the 30-year-old version of myself. My body tells a different story. [...]

  • Tight tolerances.
    May 11, 2024

    I don’t know why it always happens this way. Perhaps some kink in the time/space continuum? Even Einstein would be perplexed. Three-thirty on a Friday, end of the day, end of the week, by definition and circumstance the last climb [...]

  • Just because it is on the ground doesn’t mean it is harmless. Photo courtesy of Tim Basham.
    April 1, 2024

    Just because it is on the ground doesn’t mean it is harmless. Photo courtesy of Tim Basham. In the aftermath of the 1998 ice storm in Maine, while crown cleaning a large maple over a section of cemetery and road, [...]

  • Candy
    March 1, 2024

    Photo by Amit Lahav/Unsplash Addiction comes in many forms. Most of them are not healthy. My wife is always on me about steering clear of sugar. We recently had a discussion where I admitted I’m a sugar addict. I’ll just [...]