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25 Oct

Backyard Naturalist: Birds and portents

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A pileated woodpecker in western Maine. Andrew Hrycyna photo, via GBIF A commotion of flapping erupted within the trees along the sting of the woods where I used to be walking last week. Then what gave the impression of a forest war cry. Plain as day in an alder thicket 20 or 30 yards away, a big black body as big as a crow with a vibrant red head. It was a pileated woodpecker. It sounded the war cry again. That red top, vibrant and conspicuous within the tree. A chill rippled in my back. It was as if the bird desired to be seen. I watched it work within the branches. I wondered what it was attempting to say. Then it...
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26 Sep

Bridal Bliss: Rayna And Randall’s Backyard Bash Had Plenty

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Ladawn Hodges Photography LLC When Rayna met Randall, which can we just say rolls off the tongue in an cute soulmate-y way, the Texans had some light hurdles to beat. For one, she was on her way out of the door when he was working up the courage to introduce himself, and well, he knew nothing of certainly one of her favorite TV characters with whom he just so happened to share a reputation. “I used to be attending an Urban League Young Professionals event and Randall was on the town for a piece conference and had walked over to the hotel bar for a drink with some colleagues,” she says of the of the moment in 2019 on the South...
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