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A few pics from the woods
We’re back from a long weekend in the woods, and I didn’t get a lick of reading in. Honestly, I’m exhausted from this short “vacation,” for a variety of reasons. But there were…
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Splendor and sorrow
Tonight as we were eating supper, we were dazzled by the sudden emergence of a Baltimore oriole out of the brush. It was pursuing a moth and demonstrated some amazing maneuvering. What a…
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Staggering
8 To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ, 9 and to bring to light what is the administration…
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Read Aloud Thursday: Trees
We’ve enjoyed three amazing books about trees this week. Ancient Ones: The World of the Old Growth Douglas Fir is a beautifully illustrated, calligraphied, wonderfully informative book by Barbara Bash. The detail is…
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Hiawatha Island: Jewel of the Susquehanna
Hiawatha Island: Jewel of the Susquehanna focuses on the history of a quiet island near the town of Owego, New York. Written by the county historian Emma Sedore, this book relates the different…
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What’s On Your Nightstand: June 2011
I’m in quite the reading slump these days, but maybe a look back over the last month’s fare — and a look at others’ reading lists — for the What’s On Your Nightstand?…
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Wetland Read Alouds
We’ve been reading lots of books about wetlands this week, learning about the interrelationships in hopes of sharpening our observations at a local nature preserve. I didn’t have time to post yesterday, but…
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The Westing Game
The Westing Game is a super-smart whodunit. A Young Adult classic for over twenty-five years, this book didn’t even appear on my radar till recently when a reviewer of The Atomic Weight of…
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Father’s Day
On Father’s Day, the girls wanted to take their dad to the wetland we visited last week. We were greeted by this little guy. Grandfather Frog eyed us skeptically as we made our…