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Jean Zimmerman
May 10, 2025
What is common?
November 11, 2024
Late season.
October 25, 2024
Stumperies and critter holes and other mysteries
May 27, 2024
Forests and New York City
March 16, 2024
I’ve known these trees and stones, these streams and trails forever.
January 4, 2024
It might seem counterintuitive, yes, or even disingenuous:
December 31, 2023
Take a closer look.
December 20, 2023
Winter color so vivid all around
November 19, 2023
Plants have names.
November 17, 2023
Had a little rain last night.
November 5, 2023
There are many great trees in New York City.
October 12, 2023
“Purple and gold season”
September 29, 2023
Poking around where I am not supposed to be
September 24, 2023
I get to the farm early.
September 1, 2023
Late summer privacy.
August 22, 2023
If you go to NYBG in late summer prepare to get happy.
August 16, 2023
I’m going to bring you to a secret place.
August 10, 2023
Would Emily Dickinson roll over in her grave?
July 28, 2023
Why fry by the ocean when you can scorch on the NYC sidewalks?
July 22, 2023
Sunken Meadow holds secrets within its secrets.
July 14, 2023
A tree inspector has only to drop in briefly for this takeaway:
July 6, 2023
Just to let you know about my event tonight…
June 16, 2023
I recently went for a saunter
June 8, 2023
Do you love hot dogs?
June 7, 2023
I greet the trees
May 25, 2023
Trouble, trouble, trouble. Trouble.
May 19, 2023
In my skin
May 16, 2023
I am in Heaven
May 11, 2023
If you happen to get this RIGHT NOW
May 5, 2023
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall,
April 30, 2023
It’s nothing. Really.
April 26, 2023
I fall in love
April 23, 2023
Too soon? Too late? Or just on time.
April 13, 2023
This blog post is about the Jewish food.
April 1, 2023
If you’re champing at the bit to see the cherries
March 29, 2023
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself”
March 24, 2023
A bent tree and a black butterfly
March 22, 2023
It takes more than luck to play music at Lucky.
March 15, 2023
A warm and moist hush prevails
March 14, 2023
A thing that is mysterious, evocative, meaningful
March 8, 2023
A shout out to nurses everywhere
March 4, 2023
If you want to know where the bodies are buried
March 3, 2023
There is really no such thing as nondescript
February 24, 2023
Drifting along the trail around Teatown Lake at dusk
February 14, 2023
Combine two teenage boys, eight potatoes
January 30, 2023
In the hidden history of Connecticut’s Charter Oak
January 26, 2023
I’m a little child who’s lost in the woods
January 21, 2023
Rock steady baby
January 19, 2023
Can a saguaro be famous?
January 16, 2023
Been doing some thinking about squirrels
January 12, 2023
It is Someone’s birthday today.
January 11, 2023
An iconic tree in the imagination
January 8, 2023
An isn’t-the-world-perfectly-beautiful moment
January 6, 2023
Jay day on Dead Man’s Pass
January 4, 2023
Same old same old
January 2, 2023
What are your dreams for the new year?
December 31, 2022
Gulls get a bad rap but they are so freaking cool.
December 24, 2022
Magical miniatures everywhere you turn
December 17, 2022
Dreamscape
December 10, 2022
I was gifted with tree books recently
December 7, 2022
Turning over the controls to Jasper and Tyler
December 3, 2022
Let’s go to NYC!
November 30, 2022
If you ever have known anyone who died “too young”
November 27, 2022
A rainy tree day is better than no tree day at all
November 23, 2022
I will tell you the secret of pie crust.
November 21, 2022
Bald eagle on the turnpike this morning
November 19, 2022
Thanksgiving is a rolling affair
November 17, 2022
Bear LeVangie speaks the truth
November 10, 2022
Melancholy and rapture
October 30, 2022
Frighteningstein is here
October 20, 2022
Lace lappets were the order of the day
October 16, 2022
Do you like dead trees? I do
October 14, 2022
A secret note awaits me
October 10, 2022
October roses and fairy tales
October 2, 2022
The finest mofongo in New York City
September 28, 2022
I set my intention to notice kindness
September 25, 2022
Sometimes you et the bur
September 22, 2022
Beauty hurts
September 15, 2022
When I said my favorite color was brown
September 1, 2022
Boat rockers unite!
August 27, 2022
Something happened today. Something out of the ordinary.
August 23, 2022
If you are a perpetual learner
August 14, 2022
Road trip revelations big and small
August 11, 2022
The best place to see a proper butterfly
August 9, 2022
The meaning of a cairn
August 6, 2022
“Intuitive meandering”
August 1, 2022
Beef grease begrimed
July 31, 2022
You can read an old-growth forest
July 30, 2022
What is luck?
July 28, 2022
The most pathetic park in the Bronx
July 24, 2022
The concept of “soft fascination”
July 16, 2022
Alligator junipers don’t bite.
July 14, 2022
So much beauty everywhere
July 10, 2022
Arlow Burdette Stout
July 1, 2022
Are some trees bad?
June 29, 2022
I do like pin oaks
June 27, 2022
A nice trail at a nice time
June 10, 2022
Fragrant, spicy, lemony, lush and voluptuous
June 8, 2022
Perfectly performed
June 2, 2022
Can a flower speak to you?
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