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The Tree
Around the corner from my house, a tree fell during Hurricane Irene, blocking the entire roadway. By fortune, the tree did not land on a car or a house or power lines. Had the wind shifted, had the...
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These Squirrels Are Making Me Nuts
It’s 8:00 am, and I have swept the walk to my door for the buh-zillionth time, thanks to the squirrels who are ransacking my oak tree for acorns. They’re also not the neatest nor efficient of eaters....
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Bloomin’ Update 29: How To Read A Palm
Based on readers’ comments from the previous post, I thought I would delve deeper into the wonders of Cocos nucifera, or the coconut palm. Many northern gardeners had commented that either they had...
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After Sandy: Let Trees Be Our Teachers
We can learn a lot from trees. I first realized this after visiting the Survivor Tree at Ground Zero — and now, in the wake of Sandy, trees continue to teach me. Take a look at this one. It’s a...
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Walking In A Winter Blunderland
Yesterday, I was humming Christmas carols. Today, my lyrics sound more like this: “There’s got to be a morning after, if we can hold on through the night We have a chance to find the sunshine; let’s...
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Quinoa Seems To Be The Hardest Word
There are some words and phrases in the English language that completely baffle me. You might even say they are my phonetic foibles. Awry is one of those words. When my eyes come across it in a...
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Repost: To All The Christmas Trees I’ve Loved Before
If there’s snow falling on this WordPress blog, it must mean that it’s December — and since I’m in south Florida at the moment, I have a feeling these digital dots may be the closest I come to the...
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I am not a fan of Halloween or horror, fear or fright. I like well-lit rooms, laughter, and sunlight. Creepy just isn’t for me. So when my friend and neighbor, Neil, told me his Chinaberry tree — the...
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Rome has its Forum and Colosseum; Athens, its Acropolis; and Egypt, its Pyramids. Oakland Park, FL, on the other hand, has its tree. In a place where history is relatively recent — unless one considers...
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