Donna Young

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Lurking in the furthest corner of my refrigerator was a jar of homemade raspberry sauce. If I were to guess the age of this particular sauce, I would say that is has been aging in the refrigerator a year or more. Last year, when my son visited us, I would make a jar of raspberry [...]

May 4th while outside looking at the different kinds of bees that were visiting the white clover in my backyard, I happened upon a cloverleaf with a cluster of bug eggs. I brought the leaf inside the house because I intended to record the hatching with my scanner. It has been a while since I’ve [...]

Capture Images of a Specimen through a Microscope
This is an addendum to Aphids & Crataegus. A couple of days ago I came across an unfortunate housefly. I retrieved the fly with tweezers so that I could have a closer look at it with my microscope. It was at that time that I thought others might [...]

Crataegus Mollis, My Tree of the Year
This year my tree to study is the Crataegus mollis, or that is what I currently believe it to be. The common name for Crataegus mollis is downy hawthorn or down hawthorn. I will refer to it as hawthorn. My hawthorn is a puny spindly tree. I will make [...]