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Better late than never

June 30, 2020 - Ordinarily, I'd have written about the Catalpa tree and its marvelous flowers a week or two ago when, as part of our ann...
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Debut great blue

June 29, 2020 - The overall color pattern of this dragonfly—the two-toned abdomen and the black marks on the wing tips—usually is a sign...
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Checkering in

June 28, 2020 - I haven't been doing as much exploring as I'd like—I've just been awfully busy—but today I decided to reward myself with...
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Wool off eyes

June 27, 2020 - I should have known this moth, which I found perched on the cedar shingles by the kitchen porch light, almost instantly.
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At last, Luna-cy

June 26, 2020 - Like all too much in the natural and human worlds, the good things, from giant silk moths to songbirds—I'd best not get...
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Grass fortunes

June 25, 2020 - I have to admit something: this grass, which typically goes by the name Quackgrass, as well as, less commonly, couch gra...
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Nursery work

June 24, 2020 - Every time I'm in Westerly, which these days is pretty often, I try to stop by the town's lovely Wilcox Park in the cent...
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Low water

June 23, 2020 - I had planned to show a friend, suitably masked and appropriately distanced, of course, Avalonia's Tefftweald at Birchen...
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Grand milkweed opening

June 22, 2020 - I've had my eyes on several parcels of Common Milkweed plants, all of which had been in clusters of tight flower buds th...
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Bog angel

June 21, 2020 - A few years ago, back before all these heart issues started taking a toll on my body and becoming guardians of a then-ei...
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Successful invader

June 20, 2020 - The Astilbe flowers are prime in my garden now, and I'm spending an inordinate amount of time every day combing them for...
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Mystery solved

June 19, 2020 - When I first noticed this clear-winged insect working the collection of sedum flowers that carpet the area near our driv...
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Deer grass

June 18, 2020 - For most of the year, Deer Tongue Grass—it gets its common name from the broad basal leaf's fancied resemblance to Bambi...
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Ongoing uncertainty

June 17, 2020 - In an effort to find an abundance of Mountain Laurels in bloom for an upcoming newspaper column, I headed over to a usua...
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Natural potter

June 16, 2020 - I noticed this striking, small wasp exploring leaves close to home, and, as I raced back to the house to get my camera—t...
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Once absent, now back

June 15, 2020 - The early morning found me hiking down a wooded pathway to Avalonia's Bell Cedar Swamp refuge in search of, well, primar...
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Field exotic

June 14, 2020 - A few days ago, we attended a friend's lovely graduation party for a high school senior, and in the course of masked con...
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First cutting

June 13, 2020 - It's been a great June for haymaking, with abundant amounts of rain, deliciously cool weather, and, with the grasses now...
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Pretty pest

June 12, 2020 - With the exception of the so-called Goliath mosquitoes that start to appear around here in late August and come in almos...
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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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Meager debut

June 10, 2020 - I've been watching the business ends of our patch of Mountain Laurels for at least a month, and the exercise in deep obs...
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Newly fiddling about

June 09, 2020 - With things returning slowly to something approaching the old normal, I was actually able to hazard a face-to-face appoi...
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Origin story

June 08, 2020 - When I was a kid, my mom, who was no real fan of the natural world, told me that dragonflies, which she called "darning...
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First class rover

June 07, 2020 - British biologist J.B.S. Haldane once suggested that God had an inordinate fondness for beetles, and given how many memb...
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Small, sublime packages

June 06, 2020 - One of the signature flowers of early June is a diminutive jewel known in the trade—mis-known, it turns out—as Blue-eyed...
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Hovering expert

June 05, 2020 - For reasons I can't put my finger on, the diversity and abundance of flower flies, so strong last month, seems to have w...
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A mother's floral smile

June 04, 2020 - I'd like to think that all my images are special... well, at least to me...but some are decidedly more special than othe...
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Saw in the grass

June 03, 2020 - Today, the exciting natural history activity was a trip to the landfill—a time to strike a blow for sustainability by re...
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Back from battle

June 02, 2020 - A steady rain kept me mostly confined to quarters today, but as the night came on, the precipitation lessened and, on a...
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Exquisite mystery

June 01, 2020 - When I started this endeavor seven years ago—merciful heavens, time has flown!—it was envisioned as a way to highlight s...
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