The golden currant is a Missouri native shrub that is quite wonderful in early springtime. It literally bursts forth with a profusion of yellow fragrant blossoms. I took this photo in mid-March. By ...

My friend Josh and I recently went up to the Sierra in search of berries. We'd scoped out some Sierra currants and gooseberries earlier this summer, and this was our trip to clean up on them. We did, ...

Each spring, rows of small, yellow tubes dangling from the branches of a flowering currant flare open at their ends like trumpets to welcome in spring. Instead of a trumpet's blare, a heavenly, ...