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I let my friends talk me into being president of the local chapter of the Native Plant Society this year. One of my first responsibilities was to travel to Fredericksburg last weekend to represent the chapter at the site of the new state office. Actually, “new” state office may not be the […]

Flashing lights in the sky woke me in the middle of the night. Lightning way up in the clouds and rolling thunder. And then, rain! Drizzling rain that lasted all morning and into the early afternoon.
Do you know how long it’s been since we’ve had rain?

…North America before Columbus’s arrival was a vast, grassy expanse teeming with game and all but empty of people. Those who did live here were nomads who left few marks on the land. South America, too, or at least the Amazon rain forest, was thought of as almost an untouched Eden, now suffering from […]

This is Tomasina, a feral cat who has been living in our back yard for about seven years. She was originally one of The Tommys, a pair of almost identical-looking cats who showed up at about the same time. We eventually determined that one was male and one female. After […]

Yours truly passed another milestone yesterday on the long journey to “so-called” Social Security, as some C&W singer used to put it. I went to work as usual, and then Tricia and I had a quiet evening out. It’s kind of scary getting old. I have taken to comparing myself to […]