Recent Stories
ORRIN MORRIS: Greenbrier vines a metaphor for our own entangled lives
Is there a fundamental difference between humans and animals? Or is life for both merely a struggle to survive from birth through maturity, then death?
ORRIN MORRIS: Make pies, jellies, wine with elderberry
I'm stretching the wildflower definition again and including another shrub or small tree because of the attractiveness of the bloom.
ORRIN MORRIS: Look for brilliant red, orange flame azaleas in May
One day, Moses was tending his father-in-law's sheep in the Sinai Desert and he saw a unique phenomenon.
ORRIN MORRIS: Tiny, strange flowers adorn the littleleaf buttercup
Tiny, strange flowers adorn the littleleaf buttercup. According to the Weather Channel, 27 degrees Fahrenheit is the record low for April 19. I remember a strange spring in 2007 when an Easter freeze created a new agenda for planting our gardens.
ORRIN MORRIS: Always-changing honeysuckle follows the cycles of nature
Always-changing honeysuckle follows the cycles of nature. Psalm 43:5 reads "Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me?
ORRIN MORRIS: Thorny hawthorn blooms through May
I am departing from featuring my pretty wildflowers so that I can include flowering shrubs and trees.
ORRIN MORRIS: Climbing milkvine a special treat for butterflies, dragonflies
In the book of Deuteronomy, the Hebrew people were given a very interesting instruction about harvesting their grapes.
ORRIN MORRIS: Sweet white violet is named after its pleasant fragrance
Sweet white violet is named after its pleasant fragrance. When we examine the characteristics of a person committed to follow the commandment Jesus repeated several times to "love your neighbor as yourself," we become aware of a very important contrast to the norms of our society.
ORRIN MORRIS: Ancient magnolia genus has over 100 evergreen, deciduous trees growing in Himalayas
This Sunday is Palm Sunday. It is the celebration of Jesus' royal entry into Jerusalem riding on a colt. People gathered along the roadway and the streets waving palm branches and proclaiming Him as the one to re-establish the reign of King David.
ORRIN MORRIS: Drought tolerant periwinkle is difficult to contain
The Psalmist spoke of the shelter God provides when he wrote, "He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust" (Psalm 91:4).