Archive for September, 2008
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Labour Day is over. It's September. There's no denying that summer is over, even though the sun is still bright. The wheel is turning around to the west, to the harvest, and the dying time of the fall. As a Scorpio born in late October, I always relish the coming ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
An August day at Monkey Valley
Red-shafted flickers
I wasn’t completely off the mark when I thought my morning visitor was a woodpecker. The flickers are a type of woodpecker, but rather than pecking at bark to eat the grubs and insects underneath, they feed on ants and other ground insects, as ...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
An August day at Monkey Valley
Yearly changes
Last year the wild strawberries were everywhere. I couldn’t walk without stepping on the tiny luscious bursts of red flavour. This year I didn’t see any strawberries, though their bright red creeper vines are still everywhere covering the ground. I don’t know if I ...
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