North With the Spring Archives

April 6, 2021 The ‘Plant for Peace, Johann Zinn, California Poppy Day, North With the Spring, Happy Orchid by Sara Rittershausen, and the Florida botanist Alvan Chapman

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Edwin Way Teale: Nature’s Poet of the American Road

Nature is Shy The botanist Edwin Way Teale married Nelly Imogene Donovan. Edwin and Nelly met in college. After they married, they moved to New York so that Edwin could continue his education at Columbia University. Edwin’s first job was writing for the magazine Popular Science. On the side, Edwin began taking pictures and specializing in…

The Miraculous Tide of Spring: Teasdale, Longfellow, and Teale

White daffodils blooming and other bulbs blooming in an April garden.

Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. White daffodils blooming and other bulbs blooming in an April garden. April 6, 2020 On this day, the air carries that…

Edwin Way Teale’s Winter Birds and the Measure of Living

Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Edwin Way Teale December 4, 2019 On this day, as autumn exhales its final golden breath and the garden prepares for…

Edwin Way Teale: The Insect Photographer Who Found Nature’s Poetry

The Thrill of Travel On this day in 1942, the Freeport Journal published a delightful story about the naturalist Edwin Way Teale. Here’s what it said, “To most of his neighbors Edwin Way Teale Is known as the man who can spend a solid day In a two-acre field without 1) being on a picnic,…