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Almost May blobs
April 20, 2018 - It's always a great time to walk in the wetlands, but the last part of April may be the best time of all. There are, of...
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Scary aftermath
March 15, 2017 - Stella is gone, and in her good-riddance wake, the ferocious storm left bitter cold, howling winds, and about three inch...
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A different "marigold"
September 21, 2016 - The gorgeous red Cardinal Flowers—the glory of August—may have called it a season, but the edges of the fresh-water wetl...
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Unbuttoned
July 12, 2016 - Buttonbush is one of the signature flowers of the mid-July wetlands, and on a recent bike ride past a stand of these shr...
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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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Instead of ducks
March 28, 2016 - I trekked over to the local farm pond I visit often, and I was hoping to spot a few more returning species of ducks, bes...
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First frogs
March 08, 2016 - After a chilly start to the day, the temperatures inched up... and up... and up... and when all was said and done, it wa...
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The last cardinal
September 18, 2015 - If what I do with my natural history documentation can be considered a job—I see it more as a calling—then one of my rou...
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Outsized ambition
August 09, 2015 - "A man's reach should exceed his grasp," famously wrote Robert Browning in "Andrea del Sarto," a poem about an Italian R...
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Knowing jack
May 09, 2015 - One of my all-time favorite flowers started appearing in the wetlands over the past few days when an arrowhead of Arisae...
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Waiting for spring
January 11, 2015 - It wasn't January thaw warm, but it was close to the freezing mark, so it felt reasonably toasty. I headed up to the bac...
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