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Locust Nuptial Dance
Not much stirs on a sultry afternoon in the Alleghenies. There’s a raven croaking, a Tiger Swallowtail swooping, a bluebottle fly buzzing around in crazy circles.And what seemed at first sight another butterfly, it rises from obscurity on the dirt … Continue reading
Seventeen Year Itch
Back in 1996, Bill Clinton was still in his first term of office, Charles and Diana agreed to divorce, the Unabomber was apprehended, and Ella Fitzgerald died. That year I hadn’t even dreamed of moving permanently to North America: I … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, birds, cicada, Death, eggs, locust, mast seeding, naturalist, Richmond, science
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 