Just a couple babes in the woods

Fallen beech leaf, melding with a newborn toadshade trillium leaf. Violet leaf, peeking out from The Womb. – This time of year, it  seems as though ferns unfurl as you watch.

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What to make of it

So you live in an industrial city, and you’ve never seen a beech tree, with its pale leaves pressed against the dark wetness of winter. Nonetheless, you have probably touched and consumed beech, in some form. Consider: If there is plywood in your walls or closets, it is probably beechwood. If you have worn a [...]

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Replanting the Appalachians

By ROGER ALFORD The Associated Press Friday, March 27, 2009; 4:08 AM BLACKEY, Ky. — Sam Adams laid his tools aside and gently pushed fresh dirt around an oak sapling he hopes one day will be part of a hardwood forest high above this Appalachian community. He was one of about 70 people gathered in [...]

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The womb

While I have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of my red buckeye sprout, the beech tree along Long Swamp Creek has given birth to a new life of its own. All life gives life, even in decay, even amid what seems to be death. Just look at a stump, or a rocky place…. there is [...]

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