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If you look this parcel up on the county assessor’s site, you’ll see that the subdivision is named after Lockheed, a reminder that the nearby airport w…
Christopher Brown
Nov 29 3
Wednesday afternoon I was walking toward the back side of the house to fetch something when my eye caught a spot of burnt orange in the browning-out pa…
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Nov 22 2
I didn’t think about Eno’s ambient epic Thursday Afternoon until Friday morning, as I remembered my weird walk the day before down there in the creek b…
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Nov 15
And some new edgeland country from The Tender Things
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Nov 8
We had two first-time encounters this week, mediated by trailcam, in footage I pulled yesterday: a bunny and a bobcat, sneaking around in the unfenced …
Christopher Brown
Nov 1
The cool northern winds of autumn blew in Friday afternoon, bringing the season of the raptors. The osprey are back patrolling the river. You can hear …
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Oct 25
Columbus Day in the Edgelands
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Oct 18 1
It’s been an exceptionally gorgeous week here, beautiful enough to make you forget the news feed when you step outside. Cool nights and sunny days and …
Christopher Brown
Oct 11 2
Walking out to my trailer after lunch yesterday I got distracted by the mesmerizing scene of a pair of butterflies dancing over the decomposed granite.…
Christopher Brown
Oct 4
I heard the first barred owl of the season Thursday night, down in the woods behind the door factory, two days after the autumnal equinox. Just one lon…
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Sep 27 1
Saturday morning the dogs killed an opossum in the yard. I had let them out when I woke around 4, into the dark of the new moon, and knew something was…
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Sep 20
Saturday morning at daybreak I headed out with the dogs for a deserted traffic island near our house. It’s at the spot where several municipal streets …
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Sep 13 1
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