6 January 2024
Pittsburgh had a unprecedented second of light on 3 January. I used to be glad to be outdoor all the way through the Golden Hour in Schenley Park.
This El Niño iciness has been so heat that bulbs sprouted in my community in December. Listed here are 4 of the various I discovered on New Years Eve. That revealed bulb would by no means have survived in a standard iciness like the ones we used to have only a decade in the past.
Pittsburgh’s deer gained this spherical.
At Carnegie Museum in Oakland this week I found out that deer injury close to the rear car parking zone used to be so serious that gardeners got rid of all of the Eastern yews. It took two years and an ever-burgeoning deer inhabitants to succeed in this level.
Remaining August there have been fewer yews than in 2022 since the broken ones have been got rid of. Sadly the deer have been seriously surfing the now uncovered wholesome yews.
Right here’s what they seemed like in August 2022. The ones in entrance have been eaten naked and died. The following tier used to be seriously browsed and the ones in again have been nonetheless customary since the useless and death yews secure them.
The financial institution of yews may no longer continue to exist with such a lot of deer.