There are things in life that you can count on happening like clockwork. Even more accurate than a groundhog’s shadow, you know that spring has arrived when you see the flowers of maple trees scattered on the ground. Did you know maple trees have flowers? They do! To find red maple flowers during your springtime …
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Make Your Own Bark Rubbing
Here’s an easy project to use an excuse to get outside in spring, summer or fall. As an added bonus, you probably already have all the materials on hand. What You Need: Paper Roll Rubbing Crayon (with the paper wrapper peeled off) Pencil, Markers, Stickers or Crayons Instructions: 1. Gather a sheet of paper …
It’s a Tulip Tree!
I first learned about tulip trees when I attended college at University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. In my plant identification class we learned the nitty-gritty details of classifying trees by their bark texture, leaf shape, arrangement of branches, flowers and so on. There were two trees in particular we learned about that stuck with me. One …