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| All the rain & snowmelt have given Birge Pond Brook new energy. |
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| Loom at Bloodroot Vegetarian Restaurant (& bookstore!) in Bridgeport, Connecticut. |
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| Such a graceful backbend! |
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| Titmouse & Red-bellied Woodpecker |
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| Fuzzy little acrobat. |
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Gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) waiting for the coast to clear
before, no doubt, raiding a bird feeder |
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| "Picture Purrfect" 750 piece jigsaw puzzle from Buffalo Games's Cats collection. Illustration by Charles Wysocki. |
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| My mother with her mother and stepfather in their backyard on her wedding day, 9 September 1972. |
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| Little is very old now and smelly and weird, but also still very soft and snuggly. |
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| Gate leading to the Shôyôan Teien, College of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University. |
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| Feeling witchy. |
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| The sky and the river; the river and the sky. |
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| Wild asters blooming along the Farmington River. |
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| Love the soft, velvety texture of sage leaves. |
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Always—I never knew it any other way—
The wind and the corn talk things over together.
And the rain and the corn and the sun and the corn
Talk things over together. ("Laughing Corn," Carl Sandburg) |
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| The butterfly weed has begun blooming again. I've never had a second bloom from it before. |
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| Hydrangeas area little shy this summer. |
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| Gull chilling on a rock off shore. |
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| Busy bee collecting pollen from a thistle. |
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| Never seen so much red in Queen Anne's Lace. Wonder what variety it is. |
