Field Notes
The first sunflowers of the summer bloomed this week here on the bluff, as the rains stopped, the clouds disappeared, and the temperatures pushed above 90 and didn’t turn back. I thought it would just be the colonizers, but on Thursday one of the native Maximilian sunflower plan…
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Almost every day this week, I found the fragment of a songbird egg in my path. On the sidewalk, mostly, making you wonder where they came from, what th…
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Monday morning when I stepped out of my trailer into the pre-dawn dark, a huge raptor flew past my head, maybe a few feet away, in the direction of the…
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Some field notes from a Midwestern long weekend
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I’m in the field this weekend, deep in the heart of the heart of the country, waiting to see if this dog and the two bigger ones I found behind it will…
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Thursday before last I took some shutterbug friends out for a walk in the ruins. It was a date it took us a year to schedule, thanks to the insanity fr…
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Last Sunday my daughter and I set out for a long walk along the urban river. She embraces the outdoors with precocious gusto, discovering the simple wo…
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Tuesday morning the New York Times ran a report from Syria about refugees from that country’s civil war who have resettled in the last redoubt they can…
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