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Autumn intimation

August 30, 2018 - It's still in the 90s and even the lake water is warm, although not repulsively so. That means, of course, that summer i...
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Later bloomers

September 26, 2017 - Naturalists and gardeners alike often set their late-winter and early-spring calendars to sync with the first flowers of...
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Color's end

November 21, 2016 - The highlight of any autumn hike is the foliage show, but these days, as fall begins its slow walk towards monochrome, t...
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Weathered bright

November 16, 2016 - The sun came back out and while I was still too busy to hit the trails, I did manage a quick stroll to the mailbox. A co...
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Fall snowbirds

October 26, 2016 - For reasons that have all too much to do with work—both paying work and the house variety—I'm having a lot of trouble ge...
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Balancing beam

October 14, 2016 - Joy of joys, the woods are ringing again with the sound of girlish laughter! My granddaughter Stasia is here for the wee...
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Clear beginning

September 26, 2016 - There's a time and a place that always seems to give me my first inkling that the annual autumn color show is about to b...
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Leftovers

September 23, 2015 - The corn harvest is pretty much done and the silage-cutting machinery has reduced once-green bottomland fields into stub...
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Genuine rain

November 06, 2014 - It really rained today—not a sprinkle but an actual, steady, all-day precipitation. To be sure, it wasn't a downpour; in...
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Basket of light

October 06, 2014 - Fall is moving in fast, and the swamp maples are taking on their finery along the shore of the millpond. But in the less...
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