Archimedes Notebook

  While walking around a park in Salt Lake City a couple weeks ago, I noticed all the scrubby oaks had empty acorn caps attached at the ends...

Themes: trees, growth, nature … and, of course, acorns! Back in 2020, author Barbara Ciletti and illustrator Cathy Morrison teamed up on Th...

The Blue Jays That Grew a Forest  by Lynn Street; illus. by Anne Hunter  48 pages; ages 4-8 ‎Peachtree/Margaret Quinlin Books, 2025 theme : ...

I am finding all sorts of things in the yard: bark bits covered with lichen, pine cones, and lots of acorn caps left behind when squirrels t...

This is the season to find all kinds of nuts: acorns, hickory nuts, walnuts, beech nuts. The black walnuts are falling, now, on the road. ...