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"A collection of weekly letters about a small and decidedly ordinary back yard that reveals the simple pleasures of paying attention to the natural world through a full year"--
List of contents
March 22, 2020: On the horns of a dilemma
March 29, 2020: Spring is coming...
April 5, 2020: Wordsworth's flowers
April 12, 2020: Vultures and rabbits
April 19, 2020: Bloom where you are planted
April 26, 2020: Winter's dregs
May 3, 2020: The English daisy
May 10, 2020: Bud burst!
May 17, 2020: And now it's summer
May 24, 2020: Chipmunks and woodchucks
May 31, 2020: Looking up
June 7, 2020: Natives and aliens
June 14, 2002: Save the bees!
June 21, 2020: A terminological jungle
June 28, 2020: Empires under the maple tree
July 5, 2020: Fireflies: a wonder of the Ithaca world
July 12, 2020: The Deptford pink
July 19, 2020: Blue jay birds and blue jay humans
July 26, 2020: Call my bluff
August 2, 2020: Termite mound or Italian villa?
August 9, 2020: Happy families
August 16, 2020: The orthopteran orchestra
August 23, 2020: Backyard munchers
August 30, 2020: Wasps galore
September 6, 2020: The official end of summer
September 13, 2020: Garden silks
September 20, 2020: Late season flowers
September 27, 2020: The War of the Seasons
October 4, 2020: The backyard harvest
October 11, 2020: Making a living in the backyard
October 18, 2020: The winter birdseed feeder is back in business
October 25, 2020: Fall colors
November 1, 2020: The end of the 2020 orthopteran orchestra
November 8, 2020: Fake news!
November 15, 2020: What's on today's menu?
November 22, 2020: It smells to high heaven
November 29, 2020: Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater
December 6, 2020: Hawk, beware!
December 13, 2020: Life in the leafless trees
December 20, 2020: Nearly a foot of snow
December 27, 2020: Mass Sparrow Attack
January 3, 2021: Celebrating the last day of the year
January 10, 2021: Winter sounds
January 17, 2021: Sparrow Wars
January 24, 2021: The daily red squirrel
January 31, 2021: It is nothing but winter-winter, cold and savage
February 7, 2021: A Miller B nor'easter and a Bumpus event
February 14, 2021: Finding their voice
February 21, 2021: The daily crow commute
February 28, 2021: Periwinkle for tea
March 7, 2021: Snow fleas
March 14, 2021: All change
About the author
Angela E. Douglas
