Monthly Archives: May 2017

Cherry Blossom Time Comes Earlier

We got a surprise about a week ago: our cherry tree began to blossom! We have yet to find references from previous years, but we believe this bloom is considerably earlier than we’ve seen before. The difference: Michelle trimmed the … Continue reading

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Praised Today, Prey Tomorrow

“The squirrel—” Michelle’s outrage and alarm choked off her sentence, unfinished. “What could it be doing now?” I thought. It had to be something far worse than what it had just been doing: drinking out of the hummingbird feeder (see … Continue reading

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