A Year in the Wonderland of Trees

Twelve months in the woods — why leaves turn, how squirrels bank their acorns, what the winds plant and the April rains conjure — nature writing for young wood scouts, one month at a time.

The Parties of the May-Day Fairies: May

6 pages in this part of Wonderland of Trees.

The Parties of the May-Day Fairies: May

What would you call them, what could you call them, but fairies, little people smaller than these commas, that can hide a whole Oak Tree in…

The Parties of the May-Day Fairies: May: September

Do you remember my saying, back in September, that flowers were merely dying leaves?

The Parties of the May-Day Fairies: May: Dresses

HOW AND WHY THE FLOWERS TAKE OFF THEIR DRESSES Often the petals fall before withering sets in. In that case something happens that still…

The Parties of the May-Day Fairies: May: Sequoia

OLD AGE AND DEATH IN THE WORLD OF TREES Trees, like people, have certain average ages beyond which they seldom live. The Sequoia lives…

The Parties of the May-Day Fairies: May: White

By April begin to bloom the Ohio Buckeyes, Box-Elders, Shadbush, Flowering Dogwood, Blue Ash, Cork-Winged Elm, White, Black, Yellow, and…

The Parties of the May-Day Fairies: May: Sourwood

In July we have the dense and abundant masses of the pink-white or rose-colored masses of the Clammy Locust (so called because of its…

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