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One thing I really get off on is being able to tell a story that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Even better is a story that continues. Stories need to go somewhere.

This is why I label and date my photos. When you label and date your photos you can retrieve them. When you can retrieve your photos, you can pile them all together and tell a story with them.

It's kind of like curating

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How to Grow Sunflower Sprouts: Easy, Fun, Delicious, Free

Some years ago, I went to Casa Nueva in Athens, Ohio, with my friend Mimi. Mimi knows all the best things in Athens. "I always order this salad, just for the sunflower sprouts," she enthused. I love sunflower sprouts."
Of course, I ordered the same salad, and plowed into a big pile of delicate sprouts. I adore them, too. I could eat them every day.

"Why don't I sprout sunflowers?" I

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The Bird is All Right

I've left this post to simmer a little while because it takes time to make a whole bluebird. You shouldn't get it all in the same week! Bluebirds stay in the nest for around 18-21 days after hatching. So we're back, checking on the "not quite right" foster bluebird baby, and things have changed.

The next time I came out to check the bluebirds, it was going to be tricky. You shouldn't open a

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Rosepink Birthday

Longtime readers of this blog know that my favorite wildflower is Sabatia angularis,
Rosepink or Rose Gentian. Not only is it spectacular, but it smells
like honeysuckle in heaven, with a distant forest fire smoking away
somewhere down beneath the sweetness. Sabatia is a biennial, meaning it perks
along as a small plant for a year before bursting into bloom, going to
seed, dying,

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Checking on the Bluebird

A sleepy bee, planning to spend the night with its face buried in red clover. One could do worse.

Phoebe and I placed the starved baby bluebird with its foster family the evening of July 17. I gave it a day and a half to settle in, then went out early in the afternoon of July 19 to check and see how things were going. I figured it would either be a lot better or dead, but either way

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A Bird in Need

I was taking a run down Dean’s Fork, with the ulterior
motive of checking a bluebird box at my friend Harvey’s man-cabin. In the spring of 2017, they’d put up
a decorative box on a little post, never thinking anything might use it, when a
bluebird pair decided it was just the thing and started hauling grass into it.
That would have been OK, but the box was only about two feet off the ground,

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Summer Flowers and Shameless Commerce

I can't find a time of day when I want to sit down and write a blogpost. I'd rather be loping along, grabbing images of late July. I've fallen into my delicious stay-at-home routine which keeps me healthy, happy and wise, if not materially wealthy. I wake up with the first cardinal at 5 and am out on the road by 6:30, enjoying the sunrise and the opening chicory and the long beamed raking light

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