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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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Welcome Spring!
Well, who would have imagined? Spring is officially here and last night we heard the first peepers of the season. We awoke to a “heavy drizzle,” a concept I would have thought was an oxymoron. Now fog has settled over the village making it a challenge to discern what’s fog and what’s drizzle, and where…
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Deafening Silence
It’s lovely out, mid 50’s F, clear skies, and little wind. From the looks of things, we shall have daffodils any day now, at which point it will be spring. As I write I can hear birdsong through the closed window; most likely the sparrows are nesting just below my office/studio. I’m trying to find…
