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Witching hour
October 08, 2020 - I thought this was a sharper image than it turned out to be, and I was inclined to let the event it captured wait for do...
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Fire kids
June 10, 2020 - This is the first of what I think is a member of the Pyreferra problem-caterpillar clan: absolutely lurid, almost incand...
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Bewitching
February 15, 2019 - There's a February tradition on my ridge: comb the woods and fields, to say nothing of the gardens, to try and find the...
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Premier witch
October 08, 2018 - it certainly hasn't felt much like fall, what with mostly way warmer than usual temperatures and almost AC-requiring hig...
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First tree flower
February 11, 2018 - When I was working at Yale just about every day, one of my favorite sights at this time of year was the university's col...
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Late, maybe last, bloomer
November 26, 2017 - In the weeks that I've been steadily recovering and getting my hiking legs back under me, deep autumn has staked its cla...
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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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The floral vanguard
February 03, 2017 - In advance of one of my all-time favorite traditions—my oldest friends' party in honor of Groundhog Day—I was combing th...
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So I lied...
December 22, 2016 - With the holidays fast approaching and the house nowhere near ready for a houseful of kids and grandkids, my outdoor tim...
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Witchhazel end game
December 21, 2016 - Witch Hazel, of course, is touted as the last flowering shrub of autumn, and since fall officially departed early this m...
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Witch and spider
October 13, 2016 - Well in advance of Halloween, the witches are out... but seeing them is hardly cause for alarm. Concern, perhaps, since...
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Unusually floriferous
October 21, 2015 - With the leaves beginning to fall in droves, I'm now gaining the ability to see things I've missed. Nests, of course—bot...
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A witch's favorite
October 05, 2015 - Some of my best discoveries are made en route to the compost heap—I mean that literally, not figuratively—and so it was...
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Happy spring
March 20, 2015 - In a break from a long-running tradition, the Westerly Morris Men, a local dance troupe, couldn't make the trek up Lante...
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Unfurling
March 10, 2015 - The snow is still deep. I continue to need to use snowshoes to get to the compost pile. I've yet to swear off long under...
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