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Wednesday, May 19, 2021

A Nature Walk

 Come with me on a nature walk at the Fleisher preserve (Watertown, CT). It's cool in the shaded forest, and the ground is still muddy in many places. You can hear a pileated woodpecker hammering away in the distance; closer are calls of robins and warblers and the burbling brook. 



Look up!

and listen.....






look down...

and all around.


Jack-in-the-pulpit,










 Canada mayflower,

 

and ferns, uncurling into spring.

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Taking a Nature Break ...

 

 

 Last week I took a "nature hike" around my yard. It had just rained (2.1 inches) and a front was blowing in. 


 

The may apples were just leafing out - they have beautiful white flowers if they don't freeze. And the fruit trees were blossoming - but it was too chilly for bees. And yet a third kind of daffodil was blooming. I love the buttery color!


I'm taking a few weeks off from Archimedes Notebook to finish a book. But I'll be taking daily nature breaks to look at the flowers, bugs, snails, birds, mushrooms, lichens, clouds, trees, stars, puddles, frogs. Please join me in doing that. And if I have time, I'll post some nature pics.

... back with book reviews in June.