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New water indecision
November 11, 2020 - It's misty and still June-warm, close to 70, and ahead of what's being touted as possible downpours and the advent of a...
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Not particularly social climber
October 16, 2020 - We're beginning to get an increasing amount of rain, so maybe, just maybe—said almost praying... no, genuinely praying..
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Colorful wishes
October 13, 2020 - I needed this picture today, a cloudy, dreary, and rainy one. I'm not, to be sure, complaining about the more than inch-...
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Glass ceiling
October 02, 2020 - There was a disappointingly tiny amount of rain today—the severe drought continues without seeming end—as the predicted...
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Teaser
August 24, 2020 - The drought keeps worsening, and to make matters more worse still, we keep getting close to significant rain but it's al...
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False fall
August 13, 2020 - The Birch leaves are fooling us again. They're beginning to show a smattering of yellow, which, in a normal year—assumin...
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Primate blossom
August 08, 2020 - The drought shows no sign of abating, and since I've always been concerned about water conservation—not a bad idea if yo...
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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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Natural fireworks
January 03, 2019 - If 2018 had a "greatest hits" list, the amazingly abundant amount of precipitation we "enjoyed" had to be right near the...
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Utterly grim
January 24, 2017 - Besides even the slightest hint of meteorological optimism, the view from the millpond bridge lacks something else: ice.
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Vernal RIP
December 29, 2016 - Today's journey took me to the main vernal pool at the Babcock Ridge preserve. It's a frequent destination, and after th...
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Drought easer
October 24, 2016 - With the more than half-an-inch of rain that we enjoyed over the past couple of days, the millpond was beginning to fill...
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Rose in the rain
July 29, 2016 - We actually, finally, blessedly, got a little bit of rain overnight, and while it was hardly the deluge that was predict...
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A snake [almost] in the grass
July 19, 2016 - The heat and the drought—not a good combination—continues, and my anxiety level is starting to reach a point where I'm s...
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Hard travelin'
July 18, 2016 - The afternoon was still too hot and humid, but I went out anyway. There was also at least the prospect of more comfortab...
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High water
April 10, 2016 - I'm always worrying about the state of the rainfall, and though, according to the US Drought Monitor, our stretch of the...
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The Class of 2016
January 09, 2016 - In late October, in a dry hole that typically becomes a vernal pool, I discovered a mama Marbled Salamander guarding a l...
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Running water
December 22, 2015 - An almost frighteningly dry year is ending on a very wet note—and, to judge by the intense color of the mosses, a very g...
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Where the White-faceds are
October 06, 2015 - The maple leaves are changing color and falling rapidly, but this isn't really a sign of early fall... it's more the res...
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Back in business
October 04, 2015 - After a blessedly long spell of rain, the sun finally emerged from hiding. So did I, bad wrists and all, and, since I ha...
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I definitely don't mind
September 30, 2015 - Sometime after midnight, it finally started to rain, and rain hard and steadily. As of early afternoon, there's 4.1 inch...
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Lost in the fog
July 08, 2015 - Officially, we're still in the "moderate drought" category, but we had some rain today, and while it probably isn't enou...
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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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Solomon's-seal, true and false
June 01, 2015 - Something amazing happened overnight: after the US Drought Monitor had tipped our region quickly into the Moderate Droug...
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Along came a spider... wort
May 19, 2015 - I awoke to one of the sweetest sounds in the world: the splash of rain. We've been in a steadily deepening drought, so I...
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Harbinger, perhaps
February 14, 2015 - Valentine's Day dawned almost unbelievably cold... well, for our neck of the woods... and it was pretty chilly indoors a...
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Mantis eggs at last
January 14, 2015 - For a good part of the late summer and early fall, I spent a fair amount of time combing the overgrown fields of the Bel...
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Still dry, despite a little rain
November 17, 2014 - There was a little rain earlier in the day, but not enough to make much of a difference in the dryness of the landscape.
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Nor'easter sans downpour
November 01, 2014 - I don't know why I had high hopes for this storm. Maybe, at heart, I'm a precipitation optimist; maybe I'm just delusion...
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One road, or two
October 14, 2014 - The drought continues, and it's making history, with water levels in the local rivers lower than chroniclers have record...
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The color show begins
September 29, 2014 - The title of this post is actually not quite accurate because, if you include the straw color of the Hay-scented Ferns,...
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Real drought
September 25, 2014 - We're not California... at least, not yet. But the new US Drought Monitor report that came out today showed that we'd ma...
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In constant motion
September 24, 2014 - The drought is deepening—according to the US Drought Monitor, we've made the frightening transition into the light green...
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Little and big jewels
September 19, 2014 - A minor cold front moved through last night, and though such weather patterns are supposed to bring rain, or, at least,...
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Somber season
September 12, 2014 - I spotted these Birch leaves not too far from home, and I've seen similar collections of deciduous-trees-turning-color-u...
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