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June 2016

June 28, 2016

Floricide at My House — I Offed Those Awful Snapdragons

By Barbara Falconer Newhall I did it. I committed floricide. I killed those snapdragons. I...

May 2016

May 17, 2016

How Did That Star Magnolia Get to Be? It’s Blooming Amazing

By Barbara Falconer Newhall They emerge from mud, manure, leaf rot, earthworms, sow bugs. They take...

March 2016

March 15, 2016

Do Trees Have Souls? Do We?

Photo by Barbara Newhall Photo by Barbara Newhall By Barbara Falconer Newhall Do trees have...

September 2015

September 22, 2015

Want to See Your Creator? Go Look at a Rock

I encountered dozens of Americans of every stripe in the course of researching my book, "Wrestling with...

September 01, 2015

A Tree Dies in Texas — And Is Brought Back to Life by Art

Some temporary art installations deserve to be temporary. The graceless light projections of Danish artist Asbjoern Skou are a good...

July 2015

July 07, 2015

I’m Alive to the Moment — And So Are My Traps

The physical therapist contemplates my over stressed and overdeveloped trapezius muscles. Relax those muscles, she says. Let...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

God and Beauty — If No One Sees It, Is It Really There?

By Barbara Falconer Newhall It was February, early spring in California, when I spotted a...