We lost well over 100 trees this past year. As you know, the summer of 2011 was a very hot and dry summer in Texas. So the next spring when we noticed we lost a few of our soapberry trees, we blamed it on the drought. It was a bit odd, b...
Read MoreIn 1980 I bought 20 acres in a wooded forest canyon near Medford, Oregon. I reveled in the abundance of Douglas firs, madrones and white oak trees. Back then I used to laughingly call my place “Rainy Canyon” because I could look up the c...
Read MoreI’m 62 years old. I was born in Chicago, as were my parents, and I’ve lived in the area all my life. When I was a very young child, my parents couldn’t afford a window air conditioner. Each August, when the inevitable severe asthma atta...
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