Archives in Category: Flora/Fauna

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Connections

Posted on March 29, 2005

Sometimes I’m really slow in making connections. For instance, I took yoga for the first time about twenty years ago. Two nights a week I schlepped to the local high school gym to sit on my mat, twist my then

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Tulips

Posted on March 21, 2005

Hyacinths, daffodils, and tulips are all harbingers of spring; but in my yard tulips reign.

A couple years ago, my handyman with the green thumb and I planted approximately 400 tulip bulbs. This means they should have multiplied by now

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Lunker’s

Posted on January 15, 2005

If you are born and raised in Southwestern Michigan, there’s more than a fifty-fifty chance that you love the outdoors. And, if you love the outdoors, there are even better odds that you have been to Lunker’s in Edwardsburg.

Now

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Lazy Day

Posted on October 30, 2004

There is a charter captain who comes up the river past our house every morning at 6:30 a.m., rain or shine, summer or winter. We could set a clock by him. In the dark of winter, it’s eerie to see

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Here Fishy, Fishy

Posted on October 28, 2004

This morning I rose before 5 a.m., when the sun was probably just advancing over the Atlantic Ocean and still miles away from southwestern Michigan. I donned scrubby clothes, warm boots, and an extra jacket. Then I smeared my face

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A Dip Is Not A Rill

Posted on October 16, 2004

I’m staring out the window watching leaves swirl in the wind. On our property, there is an indentation across the front lawn, and many leaves huddle there; perhaps it’s because the wind affects them less.

It’s really the indentation that has

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Warning Signs

Posted on October 6, 2004

There’s a sense of panic in the autumn air. Leaves, which should be gradually turning their various colors, fall to the ground unchanged. Flowers bloom one day and wilt the next. Squirrels fight with each other over the walnuts that

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Christmas

Posted on September 25, 2004

It’s an early autumn weekend, golden and glorious. Being the organized person I am, I’m not only thinking about battening down the garden hatches for this season but I’m also thinking about Christmas, which is three months from today. The

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Autumn

Posted on September 21, 2004

Traditionally, today is the first day of autumn, although I imagine the constellations don’t always fall into line every year. Regardless, this is the day I celebrate the disappearance of summer and the arrival of fall.

In reality, it isn’t a

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Signs

Posted on August 18, 2004

A few days ago I wrote about the shortening daylight as we inch toward the end of summer. I assume it’s pretty much the same each summer, with days becoming shorter more or less at the same rate every year.

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