Tag: climate change
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Flood
Today dawned soft and warm, sunlight shafting through the trees and across the field. The landscape is a spectrum of intense greens, punctuated by brilliant blooms. Wildlife abounds. We’ve been following the news from Vermont closely, as we have friends and family living there still. We’ve had abundant rain but western Massachusetts, parts of new…
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At the Solstice
Well, it’s been a while since I last posted, mainly because I was dealing with Lyme fatigue and foggy brain. Now I know what friends have been going through. Fortunately it was diagnosed and treated quickly. As per the norm, I never saw the offending tick. We awoke to a lovely early summer morning, following…
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Early May and Migration
It’s May, although if one used the weather as a marker it would still be early April. Today is gray and chill, cold enough the furnace came on. Flowering plants of all types are in full regalia and the annual bird migration, while aa bit delayed, is in full swing. I have finally heard warblers!…
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It’s April!
This morning is cold, with bright sunshine and a frigid north wind .Flowering plants abound, as do newly sprouted leaves, and fill the world with color. Spring is late, following an almost non-existent winter, continuing the accelerating changes to regional and global weather patterns. Plants and animals are generally very slow to adapt to predictable…
