Garden Stories

If a home garden is your nature indulgence of choice, check out Peg Cherre’s recent posts about a peony that didn’t bloom for 12 years and a great regional resource, particularly for fruit. HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

Do Nature Shots

By nature shots we don’t mean anything like jello shots. Instead, point your camera at all things natural. Shoot video or stills. Edit and organize your work, and submit it into our third annual Pfeiffer Nature Center Film Festival! We’re looking for amateur photography…

American Chestnuts Planted

Pfeiffer Nature Center is happy to to join an established partnership between the NY Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation, Cornell University, and the National Wild Turkey Federation to reintroduce the American Chestnut. Once called Queen of the Forest, 1 in every 4 trees…

Reviving My Senses – Touch

I was surprised when touch turned out to be the most difficult sense for me to portray pictorially. I did my best, and I’ll love to see YOUR representations. This garden plant got its common name from both the look and feel of its…

Reviving My Senses – Taste

Spring offers so many local delicacies, from wild food foraging to garden bounty. A BEAUTIFUL head of organic lettuce from my weekly share at Canticle Farm. If you’re not already a shareholder, consider it. The veggies are amazing! Our own Susan Avery recently got…

Reviving My Senses – Smell

It’s a bit trickier to capture smell in a photograph. Some of these scents I’m sure you’ll know, others may not be as familiar. If you have a chance, let your nose wander by these olfactory lovelies at the right time of day. You’ll…

Reviving My Senses – Sight

A picture is worth a thousand words. I can’t add anything worthwhile. The above photo doesn’t capture the beauty of this bush, but check out the closeup of one of its flower heads below. Actually, I’m not positive these are natives, but I know…

Spring Ephemerals

Spring is absolutely my favorite season. I just love watching tiny leaves and buds emerge. Somehow they bring me even more pleasure than seeing things in full bloom. Part of it is surely the temperature, which I find more agreeable in spring than in…