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Olympic National Park is one location you can listen to on the website tree.fm, which offers sounds from forests around the world recorded by people who live near them.

Website provides forest sounds

Olympic National Park is one location you can listen to on the website tree.fm, which offers sounds from forests around the world recorded by people who live near them.

January 17, 2021, 6:00am Life

Despite best intentions, it’s hard to put on the rain boots and leave the abode, especially during a pandemic and a rainy season. Read story

Yellowhorn tree seeds sprouting. With its chilling hours fulfilled in the refrigerator, these seeds feel that winter is over, and have sprouted.

To grow, tree seeds need to chill out

Yellowhorn tree seeds sprouting. With its chilling hours fulfilled in the refrigerator, these seeds feel that winter is over, and have sprouted.

January 16, 2021, 6:05am Life

How exciting to think of a full-size tree locked up within each seed still clinging to the branches of sugar maples, hornbeams, oaks, sycamores and other trees at the end of summer. Read story

Flambe Yellow strawflower and Whirlwind Blue scaevola originate in Australia and are hardy in the U.S. summers.

Flambe the 2021 Pantone color choices

Flambe Yellow strawflower and Whirlwind Blue scaevola originate in Australia and are hardy in the U.S. summers.

January 16, 2021, 6:01am Life

Pantone, the gurus of all things color has selected Ultimate Gray and Illuminating Yellow for the 2021 colors of the year. Some headlines call it “Pandemic Gray” but The Garden Guy loves it and you will see it opens the door to one of the toughest, persevering and award-winning plants… Read story

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8 ways wine will make asplashin 2021

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January 14, 2021, 6:02am Food

Where to start? COVID-19 upended all our oenophile habits, shifting how we buy wine (online more than ever), how we taste and learn about it (virtually), and where we end up drinking it. (Not at parties, bars, and restaurants.) Read story

Repainting cabinets can update a kitchen without remodeling it.

Bring home up a notch with simple, inexpensive improvements

Repainting cabinets can update a kitchen without remodeling it.

January 9, 2021, 6:05am Life

Jocelyn and Pete Lockard are planning major renovations after they close on their home in Phoenixville this month. They’ll redo the kitchen and renovate the main bathroom while they sell their Kensington home. Read story

Crocs colorful resin footwear are on display at the REI flagship store in Denver.

Crocs 2020 rise emblematic of an unusual time in fashion

Crocs colorful resin footwear are on display at the REI flagship store in Denver.

January 8, 2021, 6:05am Life

In late October, Crocs, the Colorado-based brand known for its lightweight and bulbous clogs, reported its quarterly earnings. It was a stark contrast to other fashion brands hobbled by the ongoing pandemic — think J. Crew and Brooks Brothers, two gentlemen’s clothiers from another era that both filed for bankruptcy… Read story

Raise financially savvy children

January 8, 2021, 6:02am Life

Many elder millennials may have learned to manage money much like our parents did: waiting for statements to arrive in the mail, balancing checkbooks and paying in cash. But if you’re planning to impart the same lessons to your own children, ask yourself a few questions first. Read story

It&#039;s perfectly safe to hang out with friends in &quot;Animal Crossing: New Horizons.&quot; (Nintendo of America)

Key words, phrases we learned that define 2020

It&#039;s perfectly safe to hang out with friends in &quot;Animal Crossing: New Horizons.&quot; (Nintendo of America)

January 7, 2021, 6:05am Life

The past year was a hellish, eye-opening yet sometimes inspiring one for Central Texans and everyone else around the world. (Aren’t you so happy it’s over?) Read story

A cabin for administering vaccinations against Covid-19, set up in the converted Merkur-Arena during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic on Dec. 1, 2020 in Duesseldorf, Germany.

From COVID-19 to curbside, 2020 changed our vocabulary, too

A cabin for administering vaccinations against Covid-19, set up in the converted Merkur-Arena during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic on Dec. 1, 2020 in Duesseldorf, Germany.

January 4, 2021, 6:00am Life

The global pandemic has changed every aspect of our lives — how we work, how we socialize, how we dress. And without us even noticing, it also has changed how we talk. Read story

COVID-19 dominates annual list of banished words, terms

January 3, 2021, 5:55am Life

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Even as vaccines are being rolled out to battle the coronavirus, wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula say they want to kick any trace of it from the English language. Read story