It is a beautiful day in the neighborhood! – by Nate Simons

Yesterday my neighbors were these hazelnut shrubs next to a wetland filled with the symphonic music of the chorus frogs. The male catkins of the hazelnut shrub, puny and stubby all winter, were elongated and dancing in the breeze as the wind pollinated female flowers on nearby branchlets. The fruit will form and hazelnuts willContinue reading “It is a beautiful day in the neighborhood! – by Nate Simons”