Yay for all things spring!

(awwwww trillium:) . Springtime!! Along with the riot of blossoms that started maybe a month ago with the bittiest crocuses and has now progressed into everything blooming all at once and new things every day, springtime is also the beginning of the bird return! Warblers, swallows, turkey vultures, osprey… Last …

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A belated solstice

Sunrise on this year’s winter solstice: I always try to see the sun rise on solstice cuz it feels important somehow — and this year, the sun actually did sort of perceptibly rise, although it took a while for it to get over the clouds. So, I know it’s been …

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It’s rainbow season!!

This is some of the weather I love most, the rain followed by bursts of sunshine that make the just-passed and the also-still-impending dark clouds even more dramatic. The thickening air that smells, everywhere, like flowers. The bird songs — not the bird chatter, but the actual songs, the musical …

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