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PublishedDecember 25, 2014
Winter in the northern sky
For months it will be too much trouble to clamber over walls of plowed up snow to get to the Shed and its creaking floorboards, only to forget what brought me there in the first place, writes Dana Wilde.
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PublishedDecember 10, 2014
Big Dipper is the great bear of the north
You can look up there any clear winter night and see that giant bear circling the axis of the cosmos, settling into her winter sleep at this time of year, writes columnist Dana Wilde.
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PublishedNovember 26, 2014
Thoreau knew it, the Ancient Greeks knew it: nature demands our respect
The physical world is a prism of truth and beauty, but we violate nature at our own peril, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedNovember 12, 2014
Spider food for thought
Things got scary at Dana Wilde's Troy kitchen window just a few days before Halloween.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2014
Halloween morning voices
Columnist Dana Wilde wonders, is there something the dead are keeping back?
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PublishedOctober 22, 2014
A familiar fall shape on stilts
Daddy long-legs in the yard and on the deck are a sure sign of fall, writes Dana Wilde.
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PublishedOctober 8, 2014
Autumn’s certain slant of light
A recent theory suggests that some plants make red leaf pigment in the fall as a protective measure, writes Dana Wilde.
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PublishedSeptember 24, 2014
A Herculean backyard cosmography
Since at least Plato's time, and apparently much longer, people's imaginations have been gripped by the sense that our origins are in the stars, writes Dana Wilde.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2014
Where have all the dragonflies gone? Nowhere
What appears to be happening is not necessarily what's really happening, writes Dana Wilde.
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PublishedAugust 27, 2014
The world in a grain of scent
Late summer brings a panoply of scents unlike any other season, columnist Dana Wilde writes.
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