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Nesting

21 Wednesday May 2014

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The sky pencil holly didn’t weather the rough winter too well, yet despite the sparse and straggling branches,
a cardinal couple found it to be the perfect place to set up housekeeping, and are tending some pale speckled eggs. This morning through the branches dripping with rain I could just see the bright orange beak and black mask of a patient mama cardinal.

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A Blustery Day For Planting

04 Sunday May 2014

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If I stood with my face to the wind and looked straight up at the clouds scudding across skies first blue, then gray, I would think it autumn. But the blooming redbud and unfurling dogwood blossoms say otherwise. So I fill my planters with young spring plants. Soon enough they will crowd each other and spill over the edge, in the sweltering heat.

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Surprise!

25 Tuesday Mar 2014

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Snow drifts by the window and I lean against the radiator, sipping hot cocoa before bed. What joke is this, you ask? The Ides of March have long since passed. April Fool’s is close , so close that one might think today’s the day. But no, just one departing kiss of winter as she leaves the house of Spring.

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