I noticed a single purple furl in front of my apartment when I got home from work yesterday. The couple of gloriously sunny, warmish days we had this weekend must have coaxed it out. In the city on Sunday, the sun coaxed a lot of people...

It's March, the ground is still frozen, and frost comes nearly every night. The days are rapidly getting longer, but the spring equinox is still ahead. Walking through the woods, you see the grey and brown tree trunks, a coloring mirrored in...

I found these beautiful Bosc pairs in the grocery store just after seeing the Luis Meléndez exhibit at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts last weekend. The 18th century Spanish still life painter painted fruit and other foods you want to reach in and pull...

As others have been posting lovely first flowers and buds in other parts of the world, I am inspired to post these hot-house (mall) blooms that appeared at the Prudential Center in Boston this weekend. Even though they're indoor flowers, planted in...