Trout time
April 30, 2019 - On today's five-miler, I packed the dSLR and a couple of lenses. I knew that, from my cardiologist's perspective, this w...
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Mid-air ballet
April 29, 2019 - On every walk past Palmer's Pond in the past week, there's been a congregation of swallows skimming the water in search...
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Bad beginning
April 28, 2019 - "You all know what this is," I half-told, half-asked a trio of kids who were walking with me on a trek of the Avalonia L...
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They're back
April 27, 2019 - After leading a wonderful crowd through Avalonia's Benedict Benson Preserve on a chilly morning, I returned home to star...
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Nothing fishy
April 26, 2019 - We're supposedly in for a little rain later today, but before the possible thunderstorms settle in, I hit the road for a...
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Flower fly
April 25, 2019 - A very attractive, buttercup-like flower is putting on a show along the edges of the back yard, and while Lesser Celandi...
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Seeing spots
April 24, 2019 - Sometimes you get lucky. And then, sometimes you get very lucky... very, very lucky. This was one of those times. I was...
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Subterfugery
April 23, 2019 - Every year at just about this time, I make a mental note to start examining the flowers for the presence of a "bee" that...
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Boulder work
April 22, 2019 - The Virginia Rockbreaker gets its common name from what appears to be an odd way of crafting a habitat: look fast at the...
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Flddling about
April 21, 2019 - We might actually have some sunshine today, and maybe I'll actually have some time to go for a longish walk. But to cove...
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Hometown gnatcatcher
April 20, 2019 - It remained wet and not really conducive to trekking, and with an early Easter dinner planned for this afternoon, I didn...
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Not-yet Mayfly
April 19, 2019 - More rain... yet more rain... so not really the best of outdoors days. But at night, with a mist still in place, I was a...
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Fern unferning
April 18, 2019 - Today was the day of a medical test so anxiety provoking and potentially unpleasant that it would be better to just say...
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Picture perfect
April 17, 2019 - Yet another hiatus... yet another apology: too much work, too much time working through the latest round of guardianship...
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Spider adventures
April 04, 2019 - It was chillier than I would have liked for my annual springtime visit to URI's Alton Jones campus to take the Environme...
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Bring on the Bloodroot
April 04, 2019 - The Bloodroots are late this year, which, give how mostly miserable March was, is hardly surprising. But yesterday, afte...
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Sun spot
April 03, 2019 - I'd already done my long walk, the one that doesn't allow for schlepping the Nikon and the Sigma supertelephoto lens, to...
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Pommes de moss
April 02, 2019 - On every trek, except, I suppose, the ones that stick close to the shore, I amble by a group of ancient plants known as...
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The real perennial
April 01, 2019 - In this era of depressing "fake news," it would be perfectly acceptable, even expected, to foment falsehood on this, the...
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