Category: Nature
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A Long Ago Spring
Its foggy! Very foggy! The sea breeze seems to be intensifying the gloom instead of breaking it up as forecast. If not for the wind and damp the day would feature springlike warmth. The crows are in mating mood and in spite of the inclement weather there are moments of strenuous courtship, not always successful.…
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The Great Lonliness
Yesterday was a cloudy, cool, calm March day. Perhaps as it has been so cool, there was little evident change in the outside world. Today is bright and breezy. The buds on the maples seem to have grown overnight. Across the landscape trees are showing collor! We put off yard clean up until much later…
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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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Spring Approaches
A pleasant early spring day, sunny with a high overcast which is ever so slowly thickening. The equinox is only a few days away, and today the birdsong has been abundant and energetic, especially from the starlings and blackbirds. The windstorm earlier this week took down a conifer abutting the field, separating the canopy from…
