Born Again Bird Watcher

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Gathering Moss, an award-winning collection of essays both personal and bryological, is this week’s featured book on The Well-read Naturalist.

Western Trillium, Trillium ovatum, is one of the most sought-after and widely photographed wildflowers here in the northern tip of the Willamette Valley in Oregon. However despite having seen it growing alongside the trails on countless hikes, I have always assumed it only to bloom with a white blossom. As it turns out, I have been mistaken in this assumption. (more…)