Roads End Naturalist

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


Tag: Red spotted purple

  • Seeing the Wild in Wild Cherry

    The most beautiful gift of Nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see. ~Albert Einstein There is a wild cherry (Prunus serotina) sapling just outside our screen porch that is a favorite spot for all sorts of natural events. Wild cherry is a great host plant Read more…

  • So Many Butterflies… Go FIGure

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    ‘Tis the season… a little later than usual, but the season nonetheless. While I was camping in New England, the figs on the trees outside my garden decided to start ripening in my absence. By the time I returned this past week, they were fully ripe, which had not gone unnoticed by many of my Read more…