Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 11—The early spring is progressing, a bit slow at times with the return of chilly days, but it is happening. In sunlit sites ...

I love the smell of skunk in early spring. That sulfur smell tells me that the snow is melting, the sun is rising higher into the sky, and soon a carpet of wildflowers will paint the forest floor in ...

I’ve given up on winter. It seems that nature around me has, too. This past rainy weekend, I ventured into a nearby marsh, wading through knee-high mud under cold, glowering skies that hinted of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The groundhogs have had their say on when spring will arrive (though Buckeye Chuck and Punxsutawney Phil disagree), now it's time ...

Skunk cabbage doesn’t have a ring-of-spring name. “Trillium” rolls off the tongue like white petals off the stem, and you can almost hear trilling in the cattails when you say “red-winged blackbirds.” ...

A week before crocus buds pierce the surface of the soil or the long shafts of sunlight unfurl the tiny blossoms of the witch hazel, the precocious skunk cabbages bloom. Every year I make a pilgrimage ...

My dad and I load up his truck with binoculars, a rifle, and our lunch. We are heading out the logging roads to look for spring, meaning skunk cabbage. I get excited whenever I see the first skunk ...

Whenever I go into the woods this time of year, I look for spring wildflowers to be in bloom. There are a large variety of plants that take advantage of the scanty leaf canopy of early spring to grow ...