Second Spring: A Love Letter to Kentucky in Springtime

It’s nearly 7pm on a Thursday in April, and I’m standing in my yard.  My mind is abuzz with the day’s work, tomorrow’s work, reliving and overthinking a conversation from earlier in the day, and churning over so many other things….. I’m so stuck in my head that it takes me several minutes to feel…

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Liriodendron tulipifera

Back in college I took a dendrology course, studying the forms and prevalence of trees all across North America. I happily poured over textbooks full of scientific names, taxonomies, and learned tree identification skills in the mountains of Colorado. Now, nearly 25 years later I’ve forgotten so many of those details, but I’ve never forgotten…

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