PHILLY TREES

People are always asking me: Hey, Jon Spruce, enjoying the weather? It sure is pretty to think so. In all actuality, this i...

Over one hundred and fifty years ago, in a February, Henry David Thoreau wrote in his journal: we have such a habit of looking away tha...

The year 2012 will go down in history as the year of broken records. I’m not talking about the Olympics.  I’m talking about the weathe...

Just the other evening, I was out tree-hunting in West Philly.  It was blazing hot, steamy and sticky, so I headed to Clark Park.  I wante...

Ah, summer. Long days of blue skies, big clouds, green trees, colorful flowers, warm rain, tall grass, iced coffee in the morning ...

People are always asking me: Jon Spruce, how would you define ‘nature’ using only one word? One word?  That’s easy.  Patterns .  The o...

Tonight is the rising of the Budding Trees Moon and, with that rising, spring has begun in Philadelphia. Sunny days, pleasant evenings an...