April: To-Do List

Illustration by Kathleen White 1. Explore Fairmount ParkThere are beautiful spring ephemerals like rue anemone, bloodroot and twinleaf to be found, so get yourself a guidebook and take the family for a wildflower walk. 2.  Reprogram your thermostatYou might not need your heating system at all anymore, but at the very least make the switch

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Spring gives us hope. Let’s share it with those who have none

Awakening by Heather Shayne Blakeslee Out in the woods of Fairmount Park and across the eastern woodlands, spring ephemerals, those short-lived native flowers—twinleaf and columbine, bloodroot and trout lily—have been blooming. They come up on their own to announce the coming of spring to the few souls who might seek them out, and then go

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