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Fern Glen Essays Archive

Lions' Teeth and Equine Feet

Should you beware the ides of March?

If you can't get blood from a stone, try nectar. by Barry Haydasz

Can You Be Born Again?

Mural Life by Joe Warner, IES Administrator

Please Litter by Maria Oldiges, Native Plant Program Volunteer

The Hunt for Red October

Pretty in Pink

A Razin' in the Sun

A Glume-y Forecast

Lunch in the Fern Glen

She's Making a List

A Time To Ponder

A Visitor in the Doghouse

A Woolly Bear Winter

Bewitched

Shameless flag waving
   Keywords: fall, fruit, birds, flag, flagging, foliar, dogwood, Virginia creeper, spicebush

The Living Corpse

A Moveable Feast...
   Keywords: Bombycilla cedrorum, cedar waxwing, fruit, bird

What Lies Beneath...

In which Lewis Carroll pays a visit...
   Keywords: snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina, Lewis Carroll

Where's The Beef?

Open and Shut Case

Scents and Scentsibility
   Keywords: Skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus, Flies, Scent

Acourtin' to this froggy...

To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
   Keywords: Hibernation, Torpor, Sleep, Vitamin C, Squirrel, Bear, Woodchuck, Stroke

While you were sleeping
   Keywords: Hibernation, Sleep, Torpor, Brown fat, Winter

Parus in Spring Time
   Keywords: birds, black-capped, chickadee, calls, communication, fee-bee, songs, Parus atricapillus

Loudon Clear
   Keywords: Skunk, Mephitis, Loudon Wainwright, Winter, breeding

Mother Knows Best

They’ve Got a Lot of Gall
   Keywords: gall, goldenrod, Eurosta solidaginis, gall moth, Canada goldenrod, Solidago canadensis, tall goldenrod, Solidago gigantea

Signs of Spring
   Keywords: Signs, Spring, Gerard Hopkins, Trees, Skunk cabbage, Skunk, Owl

Stoat Fellow!
   Keywords: Weasel, Ermine, Stoat, Rodent, Mice, Vole, Scent, Musk, Mustela, Short-tail, Long-tail, Delayed implantation

Shiver Me Timber!

Meet the Muck Maven (Introduction of Judy Sullivan)


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