Sheryl De Vore

Asters are in a large family of plants that have ray flowers or petals emanating from the center. They look like petals and surround a round disk.

Sometimes, what happens to humans during the change of seasons ranges from joy that spring has arrived to sadness that summer is leaving.

When you learn more about this plant named by pioneers you become more enamored with it and more interested in establishing it in your garden.

Being outdoors at night listening to frogs and owls makes you feel as if you were out in wilderness even when busy streets are nearby.

The initial joy in discovering a nesting pair of birds in your yard often wanes as you worry if and when the young will hatch, whether they will get predated...

While some folks are complaining and saying “eww,” and asking when will they be gone, many more are embracing this experience and sharing it with others and loving it. That...

A quarter- to half-ounce bird like a Nashville warbler flies through the night for miles and miles -- from 2,000 to 2,800 miles each spring -- alongside its kin.