April is National Poetry Month! Go enjoy the Spring weather and do some writing of your own. "Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand" E. E. Cummings. "Spring" Gerard Manley Hopkins. "Cherry Blossoms" Toi Derricotte. "The Enkindled Spring" D. H. Lawrence. "Spring in New Hampshire" Claude McKay. "Instructions on Not Giving Up" Ada Limón.

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It's time for sap collection!

Impressive flock sizes and stunning feathers make this a spectacular bird

The history of Smokey the Bear

"Sunrise" James Thomson. "Glad Day" W. Graham Robertson. "A Dew Sufficed Itself" Emily Dickinson. "A Song at Sunrise" Anonymous. "Good Morning, Day" Annette Wynne. "Birdie's Morning Song" George Cooper. "At Sunrise" Bliss Carman.

We have made it to the year 2020! Let's talk about how we measure years in Western culture.

A look at some of plants associated with winter solstice symbolism

A closer look at a far away phenomenon.

A collection of snow themed poetry. Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost. Clinging Snow, by Anonymous. It Snows, by Hannah Flagg Gould. Snow Falling, by John James Piatt. The Snow, by Emily Dickinson. Old Sis Snow, by Madison Cawein. Dust of Snow, by Robert Frost.