Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road


Tag: painted buckeye

  • This Bud’s For You

    There is April, in the swelling bud. There is Spring. There are the deep wonders of this season, not in the flower, but in the flower’s beginnings….the bud itself is the major miracle. ~Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons One of my favorite plants to watch this time of year is the Painted Buckeye, Aesculus Read more…

  • Opening Acts – Leaves

    If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow This past weekend, a few of us took a stroll on Read more…