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September 1, 2011 - 11:36am | by Mary Quicke
Blowsy late summer seeps into the richness and edge of early autumn. Field margins are heavy with grass seedheads, hedgerows richly hanging with blackberries, rosehip, haws, sloes. Jack...  |
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August 1, 2011 - 9:08am | by Mary Quicke
The countryside is taking on that internal look, drier, harder, plants ripening, getting stalky, animals fattening, birds growing, strengthening for the long flight to Africa for many. To us, it feels like we...  |
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July 1, 2011 - 11:03am | by Mary Quicke
July, and the year tips into high summer, furious growth limited by dry weather and plants seeding. Animals and plants have that well fed look – house martens wheel around the house, giving us...  |
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June 3, 2011 - 5:38pm | by Mary Quicke
June is rich and luscious, leaves dripping from the trees, all new unfurled and perfect. Everything has a prosperous look. The badgers scuttle away from us every time we go down the lane...  |
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May 5, 2011 - 11:57am | by Mary Quicke
When spring starts, I always get a sense of relief and surprise that it really is happening again. Now it’s May, that initial disbelief is replaced by complete amazement at how much life, growth, wild energy suffuses...  |
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April 1, 2011 - 2:20pm | by Mary Quicke
April is bright and blowy, warm like summer, cold like winter - plenty of weather. We all cheer up as the days get longer, the light gets brighter, nature fizzes with the wild dance of high...  |
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March 1, 2011 - 1:59pm | by Mary Quicke
March - early spring warmth after the cold weather is like breathing out after a shock - just the joy of it is enough. All the signs of spring hasten on, buds swelling, birds engrossed in their...  |
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February 3, 2011 - 12:22pm | by Mary Quicke
Everything has the battered look that comes from sitting in a deep freeze of a winter with several inches of snow sitting on its back. Since then, there’s been weather enough to get growth started - grass, snowdrops...  |
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January 2, 2011 - 12:44pm | by Mary Quicke
We’ve got heaps of snow lying around, how long will we have snow on the ground? We scraped the snow up so we can reach the animals and get to the cheese, making huge piles like disorderly snowmen. I’m old enough to...  |
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December 22, 2010 - 8:00am | by wfertman
I don't know how many of you were in the 4H club growing up, but for those who weren't, there were modern alternatives. |
