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Category Archives: Nature
Wednesday at Dusk
Dusk is sometimes one of my favorite times of day. The sun has set and the sky may still have some color and everything is slowly blurring as the light diminishes. Our eyes are switching from photopic to scotopic vision, … Continue reading
Posted in California, Nature
Tagged Agriculture, cherries, dusk, grape vines, irrigation, Orchard, silhouettes, sunset, Trees, walnuts
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Jane’s Island
This evening I finished reading Jane’s Island by Marjorie Hill Allee. Jane’s Island was a Newbery runner-up in 1932. This was a wonderful story about a young woman named Ellen who spent a summer in Woods Hole, Massachusetts taking care … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Culture, History, Nature
Tagged Biologist, Jane's Island, literature, Marjorie Hill Allee, Newbery Award, Newbery Honor, Newbery Honor Books, Quaker, Woods Hole, Zoologist
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