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Natural Perspectives: Birding in Big Bear more fun than a barrel of monkeyflowers
Vic led a birding trip to Big Bear Lake recently for his senior citizen class in bird watching. I was more than happy to go with him because I love the San Bernardino Mountains.
We drove up State Route 38 on a beautiful Friday morning, meeting the...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Foods and Beverages, Travel, Rivers, Restaurants
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Natural Perspectives: Nature's magnificence in Yosemite
Last week, Vic and I rented a vacation house on a fork of the Fresno River in Oakhurst with our friends Paul and Sue Hertzog and their delightful 15-year-old daughter Katie. Paul and Vic have been friends since they lived in France and shared a house...Tags: Road Transportation, Arts and Culture, Southern California Edison Company, Travel, Natural Resources
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Events planned around the Lehigh Valley area
LEHIGH COUNTY AMERICA ON WHEELS, 5 North Front Street, Allentown, will offer AARP Safe Driving Classes from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, May 21 and 22 at the museum. Registration is required. Limit to 25 participants. Info: 610-432-4200 or http://www....Tags: Brunch, Arts and Culture, Lifestyle and Leisure, Wildlife, Sports
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The Edge in southern Ohio is known for its beauty, wildness and biodiversity
WEST UNION, Ohio - The Edge of Appalachia Preserve may be Ohio's greatest natural treasure. The 16,000-acre private preserve in southern Ohio is known for its beauty, its wildness and its biodiversity. The preserve stretches 12 miles north from the Ohio...Tags: Breads, Nature Conservancy, Arts and Culture, Marine Science, Science and Technology
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From bustling Stockholm to the island of Fårö, Sweden shines when days grow long
STOCKHOLM - I seemed to be flowing amid a river of wildflowers. I was at Skansen, Stockholm's open-air folk museum and zoo, and all around me, bobbing heads - many crowned with wreaths of freshly plucked blooms - made their way down the cobblestone...Tags: Music, Audi, Dance, Entertainment Events, Stockholm (Sweden)
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How to photograph those beautiful Florida wildflowers
Orlando SentinelFlorida’s spring is officially in bloom with an abundance of colorful wildflowers to be found on roadsides and parks all over the state. The bloom was a few weeks delayed like last year but there are several locations right now with beautiful... -
Little Traverse Conservancy Mother's Day walk
Celebrate Mother's Day with a wildflower walk from 10 a.m.-noon on Saturday, May 11, at the Little Traverse Conservancy's new Wisser-Saworski Nature Preserve located just north of Boyne Falls. Join botanist Roger Knutson on a hike through hardwood...Tags: Mother's Day
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Unusual rain pattern helps create riot of roadside color
Surely the six days of soggy weather last week caused some sort of mayhem like destructive flooding, heavy swarms of mosquitoes or a rash of new sinkholes. Not so much. But the weather that lurked about much of Florida last week, looking on radar like a...
Tags: Natural Disasters, Orlando International Airport, Volusia County, Highway Transportation, Palm Beach County
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Heavy rain feeds thirsty landscape as Lake residents enjoy blooming wildflowers
Wildflowers such as these beauties on a grove in the Mount Dora area are in full bloom around Lake County. And heavy rain last week should add more color to a thirsty landscape. For example, about 3 1/2 inches of rain fell in the Clermont area — a...
Tags: National Weather Service, Weather
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Henrietta Herndon Tweedie, 1923-2013
Henrietta Herndon Tweedie, an artist and art instructor who published several books, saw subjects for her work everywhere she looked. On regular trips with friends to Michigan to watch birds, she carried her sketchbook and drew in ink. Before going to...
Tags: Morton Arboretum, Arts and Culture, Wheaton, Artists, Travel
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Mother Nature's lessons bring generations of flowers [Aberdeen]
What we know of what Mother Nature provides in the spring has come to us over years of watching for the emergence of spring flowers, the scampering of the squirrels, and the change in the songs of the birds. We like the idea of knowing when each...Tags: Arts and Culture, Earth Day, Mount Royal
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Strange, smelly sign of spring
Antsy for spring? Stop impatiently tapping your hiking boots. The first wildflowers of spring are out. Behold the skunk cabbage. It is one of the earliest and oddest. "It's not very attractive as far as flowers go," said Brian Winters, associate...
Tags: Northbrook, Stranger Than Fiction, Cabbage, Wetlands, Science and Technology
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