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Breakfast pursuit

April 30, 2020 - In this seemingly interminable line of generally unpleasant days, this one began chilly and rainy. But a sudden call fro...
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The undead

April 29, 2020 - When I first spotted this snake at the bottom of the exit stream that drains the vernal pools near my house, I thought i...
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Crane fly parade

April 28, 2020 - There's somethng curious going on, and if I hadn't been so obsessive about monitoring the flower flies, I probably would...
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Hummer debut

April 27, 2020 - I'm very particular about my photographs... OK, obsessive might be closer to the truth... and in all the decades I've be...
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Columbine communication

April 26, 2020 - It wasn't the nicest... or warmest... of days, but the sunlight is strong and that sent a message to the wild columbines...
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Bring on the bumbleflies

April 25, 2020 - Praise be—the sun actually came out today and it was close to late-April warm, well, compared to the raw, chilly weather...
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Brunch break

April 24, 2020 - Once again, the morning arrived with a mountain of writing work that kept me indoors, and by the time the journalism was...
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Fern elegance

April 23, 2020 - Last year, when I was graced with an opportunity to trek the local backwoods with members of the Connecticut Botanical S...
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Happy Earth Day

April 22, 2020 - The weather hasn't turned warm. There's still more than a hint of frost at daybreak, and with a stiff wind blowing, we'r...
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Rock breaking

April 21, 2020 - For the past month, I've had my eye on a harbinger plant called the Virginia Rockbreaker that hugs a neighborhood rock f...
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Hopeful gift

April 20, 2020 - In the pre-coronavirus schedule I'd drawn up for April, I would have been spending a good part of today getting ready fo...
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The obsession continues

April 19, 2020 - Several years ago, we got a load of cheap dirt to fill in some holes in the yard, and while the lesser soil did the job,...
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New normal

April 18, 2020 - An all-day, heavy, and cold rain—there was actually significant snow not-too-far to our north and west—kept me inside an...
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The other mayflower

April 17, 2020 - The top of Lantern Hill is only 491 feet high, but, because it's the only real promontory in the neighborhood, the view...
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Garden bliss

April 16, 2020 - I have to stop feeling so darned guilty all the time: I had to work on my syndicated column all day, and when I did have...
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Toad time

April 14, 2020 - It was chilly for most of the day... but not too cool to keep the Spring Peepers and American Toads from making a genuin...
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Piping up

April 14, 2020 - Thanks to COVID-19, we Connecticut residents are now not encouraged to cross the border into Rhode Island, which means t...
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In the company of vultures

April 13, 2020 - Today was a washout, with a very severe storm brewing that was supposed to carry almost hurricane force winds and torren...
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Bee fly renewal

April 12, 2020 - This is probably the strangest Easter, indeed, the strangest holiday season, in my pretty long life. All of our traditio...
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Ferny affection

April 11, 2020 - It's about time I got off my creative behind and allowed myself the pleasure—and yes, it is a genuine pleasure—of contin...
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