Tag: Nature
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Hope Amid Distress
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Throughout his tidy narrative Tidwell grapples with the most universally disheartening issue of our day without sending the reader into despair. Rather than spread the disease of hopelessness, we hear voices of reason who’ve dedicated their lives to climate action, in their own backyards and across the neighborhood.
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Wisteria
Captured along the Shiloh Greenway in Morrisville North Carolina. Lots of pollen and sunshine yesterday. Thunderstorms and heavy rain in the evening. The streets looked painted yellow this morning and the pollen count remains elevated. Touring UNC and have thoughts on that to share tomorrow. ##
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Potomac Heritage Trail
We stopped for breakfast on a rock beside a rope swing, musing aloud about swingers throwing themselves from such a height into the water.
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Live on, Scarlet Tanager
The Scarlet Tanager mostly hangs out in the upper canopy, making it a rare sighting for hikers in the Shenandoah National Park. This one visited us in the lower canopy, hunting insects for his mate or flashing his red plumage to make her love him. Mohan later rendered it in pen and color pencil. It…
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Thoreau’s First New Yorker Cartoon
The wordless cartoons of Nurit Karlin. The sketched illustrations of R.O. Blechman. Turns out these staples from The New Yorker have an antecedent in Henry David Thoreau. Had The New Yorker been around, how might Thoreau have captioned this sketch from Journal XVII, kept February 1854 to September 1854? Certainly not as follows: At the steam-mill sand-bank was…
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Thoreau, Hold the Joe
Noble and wise, Henry David Thoreau also could be irascible, judgy, and temperamental. In Walden, we learn why: a conspicuous absence of coffee. Take his list of supplies: Rice….. $ 1.73½ Molasses….. 1.73 Cheapest form of the saccharine. Rye meal….. 1.04¾ Indian meal….. 0.99¾ Cheaper than rye. Pork….. 0.22 Flour….. 0.88 Costs more than Indian meal, both money…
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Early Monsoon
We always knew the monsoon would greet our arrival in Mumbai this Thursday. We never expected heavy rains to be part of our departure from DC. Yesterday the area received 4 inches of rain, equal to about 40 days of wet weather for this time of year for DC. July commonly sees 3.75″. What better…
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