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Wildflower Wednesday: Fringed Gentian
Common Name: Fringed Gentian Scientific Name: Gentianopsis crinita Habitat & Range: wet prairies & meadows, along streams and lakes Bloom Time: late summer & …Continue reading →
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On Garrulous Chipmunks, Belligerent Yellow Jackets, and Other Glories of Fall
Somehow, it is October. This has really taken me by surprise. Most years, in September, I start getting out to …Continue reading →
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October Is Almost Half Over–Don’t Miss It
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The Joy of a Good Writers Conference
This weekend I spent a couple days in the company of other writers at the Breathe Christian Writers Conference. It …Continue reading →
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Exquisite Autumn
There are likely not too many more days like this in the year. Don’t waste them inside. Go live them out in the great wide open.
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First Frost
Sunday morning we finally had our first frost. Cold weather’s been slow in coming this year. Nearly a week of bright, sunny days in the mid-70s preceded this frost. But most of the leaves are finally...
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On Garrulous Chipmunks, Belligerent Yellow Jackets, and Other Glories of Fall
Somehow, it is October. This has really taken me by surprise. Most years, in September, I start getting out to the nature center or on the River Trail to take photos of the early hints of fall color. I...
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October Is Almost Half Over–Don’t Miss It
Along the drive to my son’s school is a block of city land devoted to nature. Surrounded on four sides by homes, a highway, and a golf course, it is nevertheless a patch of peaceful ground. This little...
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Wildflower Wednesday: Fringed Gentian
Common Name: Fringed Gentian Scientific Name: Gentianopsis crinita Habitat & Range: wet prairies & meadows, along streams and lakes Bloom Time: late summer & fall About: I see fringed...
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The Next Thing
Minute by minute, another August is ending. September whispers at the edges of leaves. It’s time for bats in the house and flocks of blackbirds lifting as one from fields and lighting like raindrops on...
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It May Be October . . .
…but my morning glories are still glorious in the morning. They plant themselves in the spring now. Sometimes in odd places. And they bloom from midsummer to frost.
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Adventuring
Perfect fall weather and two days off school make for an adventuring sort of weekend… …and the boy and I are off exploring.
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Autumn Comes to Fenner Nature Center
Colors tinge the edges of leaves, the ground is teeming with grasshoppers, and every flower rushes to produce its seed. It must be autumn at last.
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In Which the Trees Finally Put on Their Autumnal Attire
In the immortal words of Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan, the trees, they are a changin’. I may be paraphrasing there… Fall color has been a long time coming this year, but now we are seeing the yellow,...
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Fall Flair in the Garden
Late October is still a great time for the garden when you have these beauties in your beds.
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Another Great Hiking Trip in the Books
My sister and I spent the last four days hiking the gorgeous Manistee River Trail/North Country Trail during peak fall color. Watch this space over the coming days for pictures, tales of close...
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Hiking the North Country Trail Side of the Manistee River, Day One
I left Lansing Friday morning after breakfast with my husband at the Good Truckin’ Diner for a two and a half hour drive I intended to take three hours to make. I padded my drive time so I could pull...
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Night Screams, Gunshots, Mystery Guests, and Other Sinister Nighttime Visions
If you’ve never slept in the deep woods, perhaps you are not familiar with just how eerily quiet it can be. At home, my husband and I both have white noise to cover the silence. A fan or the air...
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