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Hill-Stead Nature Blog
http://hillsteadblog.wordpress.com
Hill-Stead Nature Blog explores natural history topics through the musings of its Estate Naturalist, Diane Tucker. Filled with information on all aspects of nature, natural history and green living and filled with photographs, the blog is informative and entertaining. Hill-Stead Museum is an internationally known country home museum housing an impressive collection of Impressionist paintings, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. It has 152 acres of undisturbed meadows, forests and wetlands.
- Added on: Jul 1st, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Diane Tucker, Estate Naturalist, Hill-Stead Museum
- Listed in: Green Science
- Tags: hiking environment Ecology Nature natural history hill-stead museum
Recent Posts
Ever Green
Spruce It’s nice to see a little green around as winter advances. Â The land is still pretty at this time of year, but it needs some definition and an evergreen is just the thing for it. Â Some folks are easily able to identify deciduous trees ...
Assassins
Oh, assassin bug, assassin bug, you really are so dreamy It’s hard to say which one is best Harpactor or reduviinae, A “helping” sort, you remind me of a spider, You eat the bugs folks can’t abide, Like crunchy, six-legged sl...
The Sufficiency of Small Things
When do you say, “I’ve seen it all!” or, “I’ve had enough!”? Sometimes when my husband starts talking about travel involving airplanes, I say, “I’ve seen enough!” My tolerance for airports, air...
Witch Hazel
Think of it as an early holiday gift, as a season’s last gasp, or even as the foreshadowing of seasons future. Witch Hazel is in bloom. Â The last flowering tree of the year, it lights up the early winter forest like nothing else. Wild witch h...
Ewe Yews
It’s not exactly the swallows and Capistrano, but sheep are back at Hill-Stead.                                                                                 Â...
Sassafras
If you take the Woodland Trail from the farm road you head up a little hill.  At the top there’s a turn off to one of the other trails. I like to stay on course for a while. There are other opportunities to switch, and I enjoy heading...
