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Ground breaking

February 25, 2019 - First, it was the crocus shoots. Today, with the temperature still staying on the relatively warm side... well, for Febr...
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Late-autumn leaves

November 16, 2018 - The snow changed to rain later on at night, and though I got in 10 laps of cross-country skiing in the backyard track—pr...
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Life's a beech

May 10, 2018 - Many, many years ago... OK, it was decades —I've been in this writing racket during at least five of them (starting, pro...
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There goes the neighborhood

May 01, 2017 - What a birthday present! I wanted a new supertelephoto lens, a Nikon all-in-one p900, a DJI drone, or, at least, a Hasti...
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A smart sighting

November 14, 2016 - The news out of Washington continues to get so much worse—oh, Trump appointed a Nazi sympathizer as Chief Strategist......
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Botanical parasites

October 28, 2016 - Every month of the growing season features a botanical oddity—a plant devoid of chlorophyll, the pigment that powers the...
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Opening day at the Beech

February 03, 2016 - Phil the Groundhog has spoken, and as if, on yet another warm, wet day we needed additional concurrence, I spotted a new...
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Spider business

August 03, 2015 - I've always been a big fan of spiders, but this enjoyment hasn't translated into become an expert in the identification...
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Save Robin!

March 31, 2015 - I don't know who "Robin" is—a love commemorated in 1965 is well before my tenure in this neighborhood—but even if the ac...
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Tracks in sharp focus

March 17, 2015 - The identity of the track maker is easy to determine: cloven hooves in the middle of the woods, and no telltale odor of...
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