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Jim
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Midwesterner. Proud Dad, lucky husband, retired teacher. [Woof] And Dog Dad. 5b/6a
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With cold temps ahead, you may hear about “exploding trees” — but it’s not that explosive. 🌳❄️ Sudden cold rarely causes this. What’s more common is frost cracking, when bark warms in the sun, then cools and shrinks faster than the inner wood, creating a vertical crack. Learn more: bit.ly/4a9Lb8k.
January 22, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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#Alphabetchallenge #WeekCForCloseUp
Snowdrops and droplets yesterday
January 20, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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Tree fern, Dicksonia Antarctica 🌱🪴

#FernFriday #PlantSky #Ferns #ColorADay #GreenSat #EastCoastKin
January 16, 2026 at 8:26 PM
January 13, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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Swamp white oak, Busey Woods this afternoon.
January 11, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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I don't make many memes — but this one seemed worth doing.
January 10, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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January 8, 2026: Morton Arboretum
botanistsfieldnotes.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Morning light in the woods. 🌱🌳 @mortonarboretum.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Humans are funny. Winter arrives and we’re like, ugh, let’s have a bunch of celebrations. Then we have the celebrations and … we’re less than two weeks into winter.
January 1, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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Walking between Bridge of Allan and Stirling a week ago 🥾
#ThickTrunkTuesday
December 30, 2025 at 7:24 AM
December 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Oculus, reclaimed tree logs and branches, metal, mirrored domes, The Morton Arboretum, Chicago, Illinois, by contemporary US land artists Olga Ziemska #WomensArt
December 19, 2025 at 6:06 AM
A gnarly white oak
In full red autumnal colors
With a shadow-black trunk
On a sun-drenched, blue sky Sunday.

For #thicktrunktuesday
@mortonarboretum.bsky.social 🌳
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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It me.
I'm afraid I might be "I learn about popular new actors and music from Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" years old
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Not to be a dick, but my newsletter is six years older than Substack. Baseball Prospectus, as a paid product, is 13 years older. Also, "audience-backed media" covers radical concepts like "books," "magazines," and "newspapers." The idea that people shouldn't pay for words is a recent invention.
We have to start separating Substack’s failure from the model of audience-backed media. They are not the same thing. Substack is failing as a business AND they are failing creators but the audience model works
November 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Flashback to Nov 1 2022 at The Morton Arboretum🌳
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Afew blooms still linger. 🌱 #rosewednesday
October 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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My writeup of World Series Game Three is posted free for all. Read, love, subscribe.

www.joesheehan.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.
NYT puts farmer pain on Page One:

@nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Illinois has 9 new invasives that cannot be bought, sold, or planted, including Callery pear, tree-of-heaven, garlic mustard, leafy spurge, sericea lespedeza, and stiltgrass

Details https://extension.illinois.edu/news-releases/nine-new-invasive-species-regulated-illinois-expansion-exotic-weeds-act
October 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
First blush of color on maples in the East Woods at The Morton Arboretum 🌱🌳
October 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Frosty cordgrass morning, tallgrass prairie on the east side of @mortonarboretum.bsky.social

www.inaturalist.org/observations...
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Even without the digital element, this pin is designed to be a functional guide to some of our most common trees! I really wanted to create something both beautiful and helpful for understanding nature. #SciArt

I hope you like it! 💚

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October 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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One of the better photographs depicting modernity, I'd say:
October 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM