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The Master Gardeners
The Retired Ecologist Articles
A Biologist’s Background
A Time for … Any Purpose?
A Parliament of Owls
A (moderately) Frabjous Day
A Runcible Season
A Wandering Mind on a Gray… or was it Grey? Day
Adventures with bats
Advertising for Disaster
An Aging Mind Grapples with Euler, Diderot, and Biological Clocks
An Analog Mind in a Digital World
Anniversary
Another Christmas Passed
April, The Month of Fools and Showers
Arrogant mice and humble bees
Autumn & Hope for the Future
Biological Clocks in the Devil's Playground
Bird Species in Emmitsburg
Bittersweet Invasion
By the Numbers, Weather or not
Can science explain everything?
Christmas Comes (earlier) Once a Year
Christmases Past, recorded in the Palest Ink
Clavis calendaria
, 199 years later
Conversation with a Log
Correlating the Weather
Counting at Christmas
Creating Chaos from Order
Creeping into the New Year
Curious thoughts about curiosity
Defending the Home Front against Night Raiders
Doing something about the weather
Dog Days and Night Sounds
Dog Day Lessons
Drifting
Earth Day 1 to Earth Day 42
Economy of Nature & Ecology of Man
Fire Flies
Forever New
Garden Logic
Global Warming: Complex Questions, Simple Answers?
Gossamer Days in Indian Summer
Grandpa vs. the Internet
Great Forest, Past and Future
If Starlings Could Speak
Ignoring the Signs
In Praise of Irrational Exuberance
In Praise of Rain
In Praise of Weeds
In Vino Veritas (I think)
Invasion of the Alien Mustard
It’s January, so it must be El Nino
Life Insurance for Squirrels
Little Things
Lions, Gorillas and Bears ...
Living on the Polar Vortex
Lo, the Winter is (finally) Past
Looking Forward and Back
Loose screws in the Ecosystem
Mayflies in August
Mountain Revisited
Not-So-Great Expectations
Noticing Stuff
November Moods
Nuts to 2003
Of Aging and Entropy
Of Anniversaries and Lasting Influences
Of Aesop, and Gershwin, & Feeding Birds in Winter
Of Birds and Brains: a Lesson in Humility
Of Bird’s Nest Fungi, and Luck, and Small Fall Things
Of Butterflies and Bombs
Of Christmases, Past and Present
Of Elms and Orioles
Of Fall and Passing
On Learning
Of men and moon-walking mockingbirds
Of Mice and Omens
Of Patriotism and Un-noticed Outcomes
Of Poetry, and Science, and Growing Old on the Floodplain
Of rain, and frogs, and the lack thereof
Of Raspberries and (family) History
Of Shoes...and Wooly Bears
Of Slugs in Winter
Of Spring Migrations, and the Lily Pad Problem
Of Squirrels & Rabbits & How They Got That Way
Of Systems, and Models, and Vulnerability
Of Trees and Life
Of trees and aging
Of Trees and Mortality
Of Worms, Legends, and the Last Man Who Knew Everything
Old, Unhappy, Far-off Things
On Growing, up and old
On making it through the tough times
Optimism in an Uncertain World
Out of the Mouths of Babes, Birds and Caterpillars
Polish Peppers and Bumblebees
Protecting the Homeland in Winter
Quiet Fall
Random Thoughts on the Last Walk of the Year
Realities of the Myth of the Green Thumb
Reflecting on the effects of Climate Change
Reflections on King Solomon's Ring while Riding an Aged Lawnmower
Remembering the Birth of an Era
Remembering when Science was Fun
Requiem for U. S. Route 40
Requiescat in Pace, Lonesome George… et alii
Scenes from the Jungles of Emmitsburg
Singing Without Knowing Why
Sunrise on a tangled web
The Dog Days of Summer
The ecology of illegal aliens
The Five Seasons
The Food Chain through the Kitchen Window
The Hunger Moon
The Metaphor of the
The Merry, Melancholy Month of May
The Need to Name, or, Santa Rosalia Laughs Last
Turkeys in the yard, and memories of the past
Old Dead Truck
Of Fall, Tree Frogs, and the Minds of Children
The 800-Pound Gorilla in the Plum Tree
The mad mice of March
The plagues on all our houses
The race is to the swifts... for now
The Trouble with Science
The Trouble With Silk
The Search for an Ideal World
The Song of Songs
The 40
th
Anniversary of 'Silent Spring'
The Voice of the Turtle, Who Speaketh Not in Homophones
The war of the rodents
Thoughts Between Naps on Anniversaries and Paradigm Shifts
Thoughts on Reaching 100
Tomato Stakes and Puffballs
Songless September
Spring is Here, I Hear
Spring: Old Memories, New Hopes, and the Search for Wisdom
Summer Evenings, Past & Present
Un-learning about Worms
Vacation Verses
Vacation!
Up the Winding Stair
Walking with Open Eyes
Wandering and wondering with ants
Watching Butterflies Flutter By
Watching Time Go By
Weather, under ground
What I learned from Stan
When Ecesis is Over, Life Goes On
When you are old & gray & full of Paraprosdakians…
Why We Have Robins in the Cold
Why You Shouldn't Start an Herb Garden after You're 60
Wild life
Will "Gimpy" survive?
Willow Rill: The Story of a Little Stream
Wisdom from a Turtle in Indian Summer
