On a fine morning in August's middling pages, a weathered stump along the trail wears a carpet of haircap moss ( Polytrichum commune ). ...

This week's words come to us from the Middle English attome , the Latin atomus and the Greek atomos : a- (not) plus -tomos (divided)...

On a fine morning in August's middling pages, a weathered stump along the trail wears a carpet of haircap moss ( Polytrichum commune) . ...