Friday, March 20, 2020

Observations of nature in relation to COVID-19

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  It's a beautiful spring day.  The sun is shining, birds are singing, flowers blooming and yet the world is somehow in a state of madne...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Where have all the bugs gone?

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     I have noticed that spring is much more still than it used to be.  The flowers still eventually bud out and bloom, but there is less ...
Saturday, March 25, 2017

Compost Day

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     Today was compost day!  I know that March 25 is Greek Independence Day and the day in which Earth Hour is observed, and I realize that ...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Our Spring Points to Global Warming!

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     It is the end of March, almost Easter and it is eighty degrees today here in North Carolina.  This has been another roller coaster weat...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Trees! Yes, They Have a Great Deal of Value!

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     In this period of renewal where trees are beginning to bud out and new leaves are imminent, I am once again stunned by the various atti...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Better Late than Never - Spring at Last!

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     Every year I make note and mark the timing of certain landmark changes in the advance of spring. This year was an especially bad win...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

Poke Salad Annie Had Good Reason to be Mean

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     I was out for a run one nice morning this past fall - going my usual slow pace.  Two much younger and fitter women passed me and kept o...