​Natural History Illustration & Writing

Yes! vines can be exasperatingly aggressive: it’s their nature. Even those that grow in shade are always seeking sunlight, and in their...

Blue barely describes a jay’s feathers: the soft ozone blue of its crest and mantle, the jewel-toned panes - lapis, sapphire, turquoise -...

Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) and Butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosus) keeping company in an old field. A monarch butterfly...

In a finely-timed spring ritual, a vibrant host of warblers, tanagers and other songbirds have ridden the wave of emerging caterpillars...

As I strolled along my road this winter, I admiring a row of Eastern Red-cedars dark against the snowfield behind them, I startled a...

On a frigid Friday in December, folks have gathered at Myriam Wood's Fish Creek Preserve to start the plants of future springs and...

. . . In your own backyard, as it happens, munching the foliage of native trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants. Many caterpillars eat a...

by Gillian Harris, Bloomington, Indiana One of the greatest pleasures of living in southern Indiana is wandering our oak-hickory forests...

Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) unfurling in April. As July moved into August of 2016, gargantuan Titan Arums were blooming all...

No spring shade garden is complete, in my estimation, without trilliums and their distinctive triads of leaves, sepals and petals. Our...

Harbinger of Spring (Erigenia bulbosa), late February Look carefully at the faded leaves carpeting the forest floor in February and early...

I take pleasure in the muted palette of the winter woods: the sepias and silvery-grays of tree bark, the faded ocher of leaves fallen or...