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Ever seen blue balls on a bee? Possibly not what you think, but they do get them. Blue bee-balls, and a bee in a 'bad way'. Bee blue-balls is more accurately bee blue-baskets (on their legs as you can see) and quite the happy condition from a rare forage date. I mean, those baskets are full of sperm. But still...um, let's explain from the beginning. You surely know pollen is yellow because each spring your car is possibly dusted in yellow by the trees just crop-dusting eve

There are many cool trees all over the world and possibly more than our 'fair share' in the Pacific northwest due to the variety of...

Blue flowers are the RAREST color. I’ve noticed this for a long time. And it makes sense. But it is also confusing and weird and...

There’s a disturbance in the woods. The snow has melted in most places, the skiers have slipped away with the entrance of spring. And...

Plant obsessions go through trends, just like the huge tulip obsession and flash trade market that was huge for a short time, then...

You know how it is. When you're a pretty little thing with a brown complexion, folks tend to nickname ya "Chocolate". Not that I have...

Hey ya doll. Don’t you mind me, or should I say “us”. We certainly don’t mind this snow that can’t resist showing up again after a long...

photo by Katy Cain, from Shenandoah National Park At the edge of a forest, near a centennial remnant of crumbling cedar fence, there’s a gnarled struggling tree of thick knotted branch tangles and a few large dead limbs. She is a marvelous Malus, apple. Her wood is gray and scarred- wrinkles showing the touch of time. And dotted among the fading branches, dusted in new snow, are pink shimmering gems- the round treasures that still coalesce their sugars each fall before they

Ever go a little overboard on unique edible items because you wanted to know how they all compared? I feel like that's a pretty good way to "over do it" and splurge on occasion. Spoiling yourself with food is better than others. Long story short - I have entirely more honeys than I can know what to shack a stick at. I also may be experiencing a sugar high. There is something majestically and instinctively beautiful about nature's golden nectar. Why are we "all a buzz" f

Lupinus bicolor: tough little cuties perfectly at home next to a hot compacted gravel road. We’re tiny cuties you can find along quite a...