Flower Hill Farm Retreat https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com B&B, Retreat, Vacation Rental Flower Hill Farm in Williamsburg MA Western Mass 20 minutes outside of Northampton MA 413-268-7481 Sat, 17 May 2014 15:01:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.13 183435305 First Days of Summer Walkabout https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/first-days-of-summer-walkabout/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=first-days-of-summer-walkabout https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/first-days-of-summer-walkabout/#respond Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:39:00 +0000 http://duke.itabix.com/first-days-of-summer-walkabout/ Summer greets Western Massachusetts with a hot soup of humid heat. The rising sun casts a net of sweltering, swelling, sanguine rays piercing skin and leaf alike.  Spreading landscape’s spring green evaporates into a darker coating . . .  void of its former verdant glow.  It is a great time for butterflies, except for all […]

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]]> https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/first-days-of-summer-walkabout-2/feed/ 0 5348 Birds in Review Part XXXVI ‘A Bird Parade’ Spring Returns https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/birds-in-review-part-xxxvi-a-bird-parade-spring-returns/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=birds-in-review-part-xxxvi-a-bird-parade-spring-returns https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/birds-in-review-part-xxxvi-a-bird-parade-spring-returns/#respond Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:48:00 +0000 http://duke.itabix.com/birds-in-review-part-xxxvi-a-bird-parade-spring-returns/ It’s A Bird . . . No A Bud. . . A Corolla . . . A Blossom . . . A Spring Bird and Bud Parade! Chionodoxa forbesii Nesting Eastern Bluebirds Sialia sialis American Robins Turdus migratorius  Chaenomeles ‘Flowering Quince’  Serenading Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis Alluring Viburnum carlesii A Winter Keeper . . . […]

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]]> https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/birds-in-review-part-xxxvi-a-bird-parade-spring-returns/feed/ 0 257 Birds in Review Part XXIX ‘A Bird Parade’ Eastern Phoebe Perigee Moon https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/birds-in-review-part-xxix-a-bird-parade-eastern-phoebe-perigee-moon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=birds-in-review-part-xxix-a-bird-parade-eastern-phoebe-perigee-moon https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/birds-in-review-part-xxix-a-bird-parade-eastern-phoebe-perigee-moon/#respond Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:38:00 +0000 http://duke.itabix.com/birds-in-review-part-xxix-a-bird-parade-eastern-phoebe-perigee-moon/     The Vernal Equinox arrives for the Northern Hemisphere, bringing a perigee full moon and the Eastern Phoebes return to our gardens and wildlife habitat. Back in 1804 the Eastern Phoebe was the very first North American bird to have ever been banded and the threads were wrapped by the great naturalist and artist […]

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