Collecting My Thoughts

The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind Sweeps the broad forest in its summer prime, As when some mast...

Lots of excitement the evening of June 10. We must have had 50 golf carts stop by to look. Our street was the hardest hit and 2 beautiful tr...

" Chinkapin oak   (also called Chinquapin) is usually found on warm, moist Udalf Alfisols, Dystrochrept Inceptisols, Udol...

It’s been a bad week for silver maples at Lakeside.  The one on the lakefront was rotten inside, and the one at Second and Peach had a wide ...

Although it's too late for the lovely graceful ash trees we have now on our condo grounds and the grounds at Lakeside, Ohio, this is ind...

In the beginning God. . . made dioxobilane "Bernhard Kräutler and colleagues at the University of Innsbruck, in Austria, have discov...

This morning on my walk along the lakefront at sunrise, I stopped at a memorial tree, about 15 ft tall, dedicated to a young man who had die...

Volcano mulching--how to kill a tree Here at Lakeside we have a number of "healthy living" activities and organizations, from our ...

Treating the Emerald Ash Borer Emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, is an exotic beetle that was discovered in southeastern Mic...

The trees are preparing for a long sleep From a review of Republic of Shade by Thomas J. Campanella, Yale University Press, 2003 which in...

3716 Global warming, wind, wet ground and change If it hadn't warmed up in Ohio several thousands of years ago melting our ice cap*, ...