If you are anything like me, by May, you will be in full garden mode, sowing seeds, deadheading blooms, and trimming winter-flowering shrubs and trees. But before you reach for the pruning shears, ...

The calendar says that it’s winter. But for much of the natural world in coastal California, life is clearly awakening as abundant water and already lengthening days give their cues. Grasses are green ...

Like a crown jewel, a hummingbird nest is one of the great wonders in all of nature. They are so tiny, so perfect. Yet, few of us have ever seen a hummingbird nest. This is because they are nearly ...