Night Buddies takes place almost entirely after lights out, so we pay more attention than most people to when it actually gets dark. And right now it’s getting dark fast. October is the month that takes the light. Most of the country loses somewhere around an hour of daylight between the first and the thirty-first […]
Sometime in the next few weeks, a child in your back seat is going to point at a tree and ask why it’s orange. You’ve got about four seconds before they lose interest, so here’s what to say. The usual answer is half right You’ve probably heard that all the colors were hiding in the […]
Do you live in an area with deciduous trees? Crenwinkle wants you to know that d-e-c-i-d-u-o-u-s means trees that drop their leaves for part of each year, usually in the fall. The branches of deciduous trees remain bare until they grow new leaves, usually in the spring. If you look out of your window and […]