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Marching On

Don’t hold anything anybody says in March against them, because it’s just March, and everybody’s like that.

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Getting a Little Sappy

I have discovered something that makes boring old March brighten up, and that is a mid-life love affair with maple trees. I should have started this years ago.

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Keeping it Boony

Matinicus Island is getting less boony all the time, for better or worse.

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Meter Reader in the Snow

On some of this island’s roads, before I got there in mind to count the kilowatts, there were no tracks at all.

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Owl Winter

We still have not perfected the Snowy Owl cocktail.

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Shoplifters

The birds who loiter around the bakery are not Jonathan Livingston Seagull; they’re more like Baby-Face Nelson Seagull.

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Endangered

I heard this morning that the monarch butterfly has been placed on the endangered species list.

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Getting There From Here

I am most assuredly not explaining all about everything on this island. I don’t even know most of what’s going on out here.

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Man O’ War

It’s getting to the point where mid-coast Maine might come to expect some thoroughly bewildered avian outta-stater to visit our shores each year.

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