A new day, another update from a very, very recent post. I don’t normally do this, but it’s been a very busy month, so it’s tougher for me to devote the time to five entirely new topics. Barely a week has passed since I covered the travails of old Stumpy, the Yoshino cherry tree at
I usually wait more than a few weeks before I offer a follow-up from an earlier post. But if I learn something new almost immediately after posting—sometimes as a direct byproduct of the initial article—then I’m more than happy to revisit the subject, offering new insights or corrections as necessary. More often than not, the
As spring begins, I’m going to use the changing seasons to pivot toward a recurring theme in my articles: scraggly trees in Washington DC. The first article—which went to print right before the official start of winter 2023—focused on a white mulberry tree (or two) near Washington Monument that depended on braces and scaffolding to
I don’t really think that flag lot is part of common parlance anywhere outside of the domain of real estate and land development. But it’s such a common condition—and such a simple concept to understand—that it’s kind of surprising most people don’t really know about it. I certainly didn’t until I dipped my toe in
I will be overseas a fair part of this month, and I at least wanted to crank out one brief article before I leave. While this article might, at first blush, seem to come out of nowhere, it bears a direct spatial resemblance to one I wrote just a few weeks ago: on a row
A new day, another update from a very, very recent post. I don’t normally do this, but it’s been a very busy month, so it’s tougher for me to devote the time to
I usually wait more than a few weeks before I offer a follow-up from an earlier post. But if I learn something new almost immediately after posting—sometimes as a direct byproduct of the
As spring begins, I’m going to use the changing seasons to pivot toward a recurring theme in my articles: scraggly trees in Washington DC. The first article—which went to print right before the
I don’t really think that flag lot is part of common parlance anywhere outside of the domain of real estate and land development. But it’s such a common condition—and such a simple concept
I will be overseas a fair part of this month, and I at least wanted to crank out one brief article before I leave. While this article might, at first blush, seem to