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Don’t even blink, or everything will be gone. That fire-red inferno of a maple tree now ablaze in the front yard will be naked. That birch tree whose fallen foliage will have already made a golden circular skirt on the still-green grass and its bared white arms will plead for a blanket of snow. Blinding That silver maple will have miraculously turned to gold which is actually blinding in the morning sun and again when the sun goes down in the west. Around the pond, the display of g

by Louise Boronyak, Cosmos Online Source: http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/online/3086/oil-or-orangutans Illegal logging and palm oil plantations are destroying forest habitat and food sources for the orangutans of Borneo and Sumatra. We all have a part to play in resolving the issue. There is something enchanting about a rainforest landscape. Lush green foliage; sunlight filtering through the canopy; the sounds of insects, birds and other mammals. To me, this is paradise. I h

It is a clear, bright, sunny, autumn day. I look out my office window and see the first of the leaves that have started to change. On the web, a friend has posted Late Afternoon Foliage, VT . I am low energy this morning. The weekend was filled up with celebrating Fiona’s birthday. It isn’t until Tuesday, but she spent the weekend with a friend at a water park. It was a great time, but it meant that I didn’t get a chance to join another friend to celebrate his birthday or to a political e

It was a hot day in San Francisco for hanging out on the street during the annual Park(ing) Day , which happens worldwide . Good thing there was plenty of foliage to soak up the CO2 in many of the spots, many of which were spotted downtown and in the Mission. It was duly noted that San Francisco has plenty of green spaces when you seek them out, but it's definitely refreshing to see a small oasis here and there in the middle of such urba

While talking to my friend Jayme , she mentioned that she really has a hard time with a few pots that live underneath the overhang of her home, and thus are in a very dry, shady spot. Inspired by Jayme’s dilemma, I thought I would come up with a few ideas for those of you who also have shady garden spots. A. Foxglove ( Digitalis ) ‘Sliver Fox’ – Bred to be compact enough for containers, this foxglove has white to pale pink flowers and foliage tinted silver. Each plant sends up 3 or 4