Out of their loneliness for each other two reeds, or maybe two shadows, lurch forward and become suddenly a life lifted from dawn or the rain. It is the wilderness come back again, a lagoon with our city reflected in its eye.We live by faith in such presences. It is a test for us, that […]
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If I had my way, we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes. William S. Burrourghs. Lampropeltis – Greek lampros meaning radiant, and pelta meaning small shields. Triangulum is derived from the Latin triangulus meaning “having three angles”. Other common names include chin snake, chicken snake, cow-sucker, milk sucker, and thunder-and-lightening snake. They are also known as checkered adder for
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Stellar’s jay is a common bird in western North American, its range extending from the Rockies west to the coast, up to SE Alaska and south through Mexico. This bird shows quite the variation in plumage, particularly where its range bumps up against the eastern blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) but more on that later. The
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he woods hold not such another gemas the nest of the hummingbird.The finding of one is an event. – John Burroughs This is the most common humming bird on the west coast of North America and ranges from northern British Columbia to northern Mexico. This is a moderate sized hummer ranging from 3.9 – 4.3 inches
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Some intervales of fair weather last night, rain continue this morning. I walked up the Brook & assended the first Spur of the mountain with much fatigue, the distance about 3 miles, through an intolerable thickets of Small pine, a groth much resembling arrow wood on the Stem of which there is thorns; this groth about
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