We are in mourning today for a part of the landscape, for what the tree surgeon described in April as the best tree in the Incorporated V...

Integrating the outdoors into the interior design is a fundamental part of mid-century architecture; strategically placed windows enhance th...

Dark green Hinoki cypress against a summer blue sky Blood red buds on a Norwaay Spruce laden with new cones White Dogwood flowers behind the...

Just a morning stroll-turn right at the purple magnolia spot the bluejay in the conifer snap the honking goose on the pond straight on to th...

After this blew in I thought we might have lost a few branches, but it was a little bit more than that... the tree top. all 15' of it c...

Planting Fields Arboretum , Oyster Bay, NY. Happy Halloween!

... and found wanting. We failed at putting up blinds , making the tree stand up , screwing the tree base to a plywood board and - spectacu...

It's currently 42 F and raining, all the cats are huddled together and I'm having to consider seriously turning on the heating. It...

It's still officially Spring so I'm going to forgo Nature's burst into bloom* and let myself be seduced again by green, or more...

I asked the landscaper's advice about the leaning juniper in the neglected garden. He confirmed it couldn't be saved; it would cost...

Well, the whole save-a-tree rescue mission did not go according to plan. It turns out trees are heavier than one would think, well this one...

Made a HUGE mistake in walking up the neighbor's drive to chat. Sorry, that came out wrong, the chat was very nice, as is the neighbor. ...

A neighbor just called to say the damn dog was running around the Village. Of course when I looked for her I found her in her usual place -...

While the eyes of the world are on Barack Obama in Berlin, home of the famous boulevard of linden or lime trees , I am surveying the scene ...