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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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Mountain Laurel lady
June 18, 2019 - The Mountain Laurels, which put on a magnificent show in my backyard about a week ago, seemed to be finished for the yea...
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A storm called Benji
December 09, 2017 - For one of the rare times in my life, I greeted the Weather Channel's shrill advisory that the nor'easter they'd named B...
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Marvelous mimics
June 06, 2017 - With the Mountain Laurels starting to put on a show in the backyard, I decided to visit another Laurel stronghold, this...
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Re-awakening, redux
March 19, 2017 - It's going to be one of those Marches, the kind that drives you mad. Spring weather arrives early, then retreats, the re...
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Fungus porn
December 10, 2016 - With my granddaughter at her aunt's for a sleepover—always a favorite event in Stasia's life, and a big draw away from h...
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Christmas glow
December 02, 2016 - The malaise continues, and it's taking forever to get anything done, from actual writing that pays the bills to hiking t...
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Little blue
October 10, 2016 - I haven't roamed the remains of the tallgrass prairie areas of the Midwest for almost half a century, but if I ever get...
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Definitely X-rated
October 09, 2016 - For the first time in what seems like months, it rained steadily and hard all day. But by late afternoon, it had tapered...
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Laurels for visitors
June 10, 2016 - It's been a remarkable June for Mountain Laurels, and while I thought there could be few rivals of the amazing display t...
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Ol' Blue Eyes
June 08, 2016 - If your knee-jerk reaction to yet another dragonfly image is, well, Dear God in Heaven, can't the naturalist shoot anyth...
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Maple blossom time
March 19, 2016 - Most of today was given over to writing projects and planning for renovations on the home front, but on a gray and chill...
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On the rocks
March 03, 2016 - This image is descriptive in more ways than one, although I didn't know it at the time. It's a shot of a nice gneiss (so...
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The end of the blues?
September 19, 2015 - The butterflies are rapidly becoming fewer and farther between, and on a number of recent forays, the only lepidopterans...
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Chain, chain, chain
September 12, 2015 - Today I figured, since I'm pretty sure my Lyme has resurfaced and I will shortly be back on the antibiotics that will re...
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Tricky target
August 10, 2015 - When I started this blog more than two years ago, my walking route usually had me taking a right at the foot of my drive...
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Praise the rain and the Fuji
June 16, 2015 - We're still at least half a foot below normal in terms of precipitation for the year so far, but maybe the drought, whic...
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Elfin identified... I think
May 11, 2015 - I went back to the Bell Cedar Swamp refuge in the early afternoon to try to spot more odonates, but, except for one quic...
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Graveyard shift
March 05, 2015 - The snow from Thor lightened overnight, but it never stopped entirely, and at daybreak, it increased in intensity. I gue...
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