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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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Ready and waiting

January 05, 2019 - One of every naturalist's favorite winter activities, yours truly included, is to search the bleak and seemingly lifeles...
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Mephitic preview

November 17, 2018 - The snow continues to hold on in a few of the shadier and cooler spots, but there's barely more than a frozen crust—and...
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Hot-blooded plant

February 19, 2018 - I didn't think I'd get a chance to take this picture in 2018... given the reality setting in that it doesn't appear like...
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Warming the water

February 05, 2018 - More relative warmth. More sun. More melting. More surprises. Early this afternoon I was taking my neighbor's dog for a...
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Furnace at work

February 18, 2017 - More than half-a-century ago, when I first started to study the natural world, things were neatly divided into cold-bloo...
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Preacher plant

April 30, 2016 - The flowering season of the Skunk Cabbage is long past, but there are plenty of blossoms getting ready to grace the wetl...
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Spring restart

March 22, 2016 - For the Skunk Cabbages, the flowering season is pretty much over. The striped spathes—the hoods that kept the "hot-blood...
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Flower power

February 07, 2016 - The sun came out and the weather warmed enough so that Lexi's snow turned to slush and even, in the shade-free spots, di...
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Awaiting a sign

December 19, 2015 - The warmth and the green-brown of a climate change pre-Christmas continue to haunt our ridge, and in the wetter area of...
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The rising of the green

May 02, 2015 - Canada Mayflowers aren't the first green to rise out of the ground—that honor would have to belong to the Skunk Cabbage—...
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No hellebore falsity

April 17, 2015 - The Skunk Cabbage, the first "wildflower" of the season, is up and leafing out in the wet parts of the woods, but it is...
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