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Essays that celebrate urban nature with keen observation and earthy humor
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TOC
Preface
Summer
Vocation
Dragonfly, Secondhand
Naked Ladies and Cicadas
Walking Onions
Paradise in a Parking Lot
Can’t Eat Just One
Devil’s Advocate
At a Red Light on Music Row
A Dandelion Is to Blow
It Was a Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
What a Butterfly Means
Fameflower
Why It Is Good to Go Outside Even If You Feel Like Hell
Ticked Off
Ghost Rain
Fall
Soccer Ecotone
Cotton Candy Is a Constant
Leaf Prints
Field Trip Leavings
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
Stinko Ginkgo
“Little Things That Run the World” in Late October
Nature’s Motel
Evidence
White Pine Smells Mighty Fine
Free, Sustainable, and Thematic
Compression
Eponymous
This Is How a Robin Drinks
Winter
Frostflowers
Liriodendron tulipifera
Hummingbird Winter
Because of the Dashboard
Winter Solstice
Raptor-Ready
Accidental Glade
Discontinued
Opportunity
Sidewalk Fig
Oh, Tannen-burn
Spring
Quiet Point
What White Tree Is Blooming Now
Bring Back the Bones
What a Robin Sees
Same Bat-Time
Pop Quiz, Late April
Sycamore Currency
True Nature
Samara
Catalpa Tree Verbs
Grandiflora Gesture
House Wren
Guided
Coda: Nature Lessons: How We Can Save the World
Acknowledgments
About the author
Joanna Brichetto is a certified Tennessee naturalist and writes the urban nature blog
Sidewalk Nature: Everyday Wonders in Everyday Habitat Loss. Her essays have appeared in
Brevity, Short Reads, Ecotone, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Hippocampus, the
Hopper, Flyway, the
Fourth River, and elsewhere. She lives in Nashville.
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Essays that celebrate urban nature with keen observation and earthy humor
