Sassafras Mama

When Old Man Tree was trimmed last fall, I had the ivy which surrounds the tree girdled so that come Winter, I could pull it off the tre...

Since she moved into the neighborhood in late 2011, the neighbor in the house to my immediate west has complained to me about Old Man Tree,...

We took a lot of photos of the snow, but none seems to illustrate the volume of snow that fell as well as this set of pictures of some of my...

For the past year, I've been taking a picture of the tree in my backyard on the 1st day of each month. I started the project on Septemb...

It's the 1st of the month, which means that it's time to think about my tree. In the summer, the back deck under the big tree is li...

June 1 has arrived and brought my tree branches full of deep green leaves. There is a lush feel to my backyard this time of the year and ol...

On the 1st of each month, I've been taking a picture of the big tree in my backyard. In the past month, as spring unfurled in the surrou...

We had ourselves a warm April Fool's Day here in our corner of New Jersey. For most of the day, it was a bit damp (even humid) and then...

I was up early on Saturday morning; in time to see the sun rise. When I'd gone to bed on Friday night, snow was falling and I had expec...

It's the 1st of the month and so my backyard tree is back. We've had some windy days in the last month and my big tree has lost som...

On the first of each month, I've been taking a picture of and recording my thoughts about the tree in my backyard. This month the tree ...

On the first of each month, I'm taking pictures of and writing about the big tree in my backyard. To judge from the grass, many of the t...

On the 1st of each month, I'm taking a picture of and writing about the tree in my backyard. Fall comes slowly to a tree this old; he...