Greensboro Birds

Happy is our official well-wisher. Happy birthday, CDeL!

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Spending time on the Adirondack bench this a.m., right after Hanna’s rain ended, watching ruby-throated hummingbirds at the feeder while nursing a two-day weather headache. (Is it just me or do lots of people get queasy migraines when the barometric pressure drops?) Tito’s flopped next to me having a head-pat, being a good little man [...]

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Garden purists, avert your eyes. The rest of you, please enjoy this explosion of yellow courtesy of the tickseed we’ve allowed to go crazy in the garden. Some are nearly six feet tall! According to my fantastic new field guide, Wildflowers of North Carolina, there are 12 species of tickseed in our area, and it’s [...]

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Happy loves to run, and Tito loves trying to keep up with her. For a dog with short legs, he does an admirable job of keeping up. Happy, after all, has a reputation for being the fastest dog of them all, but I think she does a fair amount of sandbagging for Tito’s sake. Tito [...]

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Josh had a rare day off this week—his first after 16 consecutive days of working. We took Happy and Tito to Hanging Rock State Park, which is a short drive from our place, yet more in the foothills of the Appalachians and therefore a little more mountainy. We hiked to a couple of waterfalls, as [...]

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