Archives in Category: Flora/Fauna

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Unnecessary Things, Redux

Posted on August 3, 2004

A couple weeks ago I wrote about what I perceived as unnecessary things in the world. (See July 17, 2004) Included on my list were mosquitoes, neckties, and cellphones in coordinated colors.

Well, I have more nominees in case you

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Squirrels

Posted on July 13, 2004

I have declared open warfare on the squirrels that populate our backyard, and I have done this in the interest of the birds that also live there. It goes like this:

We have bird feeders that hang from various shepherd’s hooks

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A Day in the Life

Posted on July 9, 2004

There is a buzz of activity on our road today. Bob the Tree Man is at Clara’s, my next door neighbor, getting ready to cut down a large tree that fell from her neighbor’s lot on the other side onto

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Grass

Posted on July 8, 2004

Carl Sandburg once wrote a poem about the power of grass to erase bitter memories of war and death. It isn’t explicit in the poem, but the scene is a cemetery where crosses grow. Newly dug graves with shiny markers

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Catalog Cottontails

Posted on June 12, 2004

Direct mail catalogs are the rabbits of the advertising world. It only takes one, two at most, showing up in your mailbox before they begin to proliferate exponentially. They are also as difficult to get rid of as the real

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Mourning for Trees

Posted on May 26, 2004

These past few days have shown the power of electricity versus the power of trees, and the trees did not win.

A terrible storm roared through St. Joseph and Benton Harbor last Friday, ripping trees from the ground as if

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