Category: Climate Change
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A Stroll With a Gray Whale
A fine mid-spring day. Suddenly everything is in bloom! The sun is high and bright and I need sunscreen and a hat when outside. I’ve made repairs to my electric trike and gone for my first relatively short ride. We noticed last night that twilight extended until almost eight! Yesterday I found myself remembering a…
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Two Ways of Dreaming
A dim, chill morning. Yesterday the sun came out in the afternoon and the temperature rose to 70F. It was lovely. Later this afternoon we will have additional much needed rain. We send prayers to all who are experiencing the harm of too much rain this weekend. For the moment the disaster unfolding in the…
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Spring Rain
A dark, drizzly, chilly early spring day. In spite of the cold, color is returning to the maples and other trees and the magnolia’s buds seem to thicken daily. Lichen on tree trunks have begun to take on more color and the field has a bright green hue between the bare spots. In the garden…
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Breath and Memory
Today dawned clear and chilly. The bare branches whip around against the blue sky. The danger of fire is unusually high, and the turkeys and geese are traveling in large packs. The wind has been intense the past few days, breaking branches and taking down scaffolding. The barometric pressure has been bouncing around as well.…
