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A particularly awful photo of raccoon kits thinking they’d found a wading pool in my yard. I shouldn’t say thinking. They had found a wading pool.

A particularly awful photo of raccoon kits thinking they’d found a wading pool in my yard. I shouldn’t say thinking. They had found a wading pool.

A pleasant dream has the feel of being touched by a hummingbird’s wing. Rudy-throated Hummingbird.

Birdsfoot Trefoil crowds the roadsides. The name originates from seedpods that fan out from the stem like the foot of a bird.

I called this beautiful spiderwort “cow slobber” when I was a dear boy because the flowers decay into a jelly-like mess. More refined folks nicknamed it “widow’s tears.”