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    January 21, 2015

    The blessing of snow in winter

    We are accustomed to bare woods and fields in the fall, but January is supposed to bring snow, columnist Dana Wilde writes.

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    January 7, 2015

    Winter, stars and aliens

    The kaleidoscopic night-shining sky rattles columnist Dana Wilde's brain.

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    December 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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    December 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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    November 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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    November 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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    October 29, 2014

    Halloween morning voices

    Columnist Dana Wilde wonders, is there something the dead are keeping back?

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    October 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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    October 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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    September 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.