Dear Joan: Recently, I noticed four small mounds of bird seed deposited in the fake lawn in my backyard. Neighbors have bird feed feeders in their yard, and I asked them to look at the seed. It was ...
With his latest book-length essay, "A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys and Other Wild Places" (Timber Press), Brown rises to a level of acute observation ...