Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Early Bloomer

Exotic Wintersweet was blooming on Tuesday, which was well below avarege temperatures.*

Last year’s fruits still on the shrub.

*Average cold of late that is; when I was a boy the Hudson would freeze over and wolves would cross the ice from New Jersey.

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