Nature on the Doorstep : : A Year of Letters / / Angela E. Douglas.
Nature on the Doorstep reveals the simple pleasures of paying attention to the natural world in one's own backyard over the course of a year. In weekly letters, Angela Douglas shares the joys and curiosities of a decidedly ordinary patch of green in upstate New York cultivated through the art o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- A Note to Readers
- The Letters
- March 22, 2020 On the horns of a dilemma
- March 29, 2020 Spring is coming . . .
- April 5, 2020 Wordsworth’s flowers
- April 12, 2020 Vultures and rabbits
- April 19, 2020 Bloom where you are planted
- April 26, 2020 Winter’s dregs
- May 3, 2020 The English daisy
- May 10, 2020 Bud burst!
- May 17, 2020 And now it’s summer
- May 24, 2020 Chipmunks and woodchucks
- May 31, 2020 Looking up
- June 7, 2020 Natives and aliens
- June 14, 2002 Save the bees!
- June 21, 2020 A terminological jungle
- June 28, 2020 Empires under the maple tree
- July 5, 2020 Fireflies: a wonder of the Ithaca world
- July 12, 2020 The Deptford pink
- July 19, 2020 Blue jay birds and blue jay humans
- July 26, 2020 Call my bluff
- August 2, 2020 Termite mound or Italian villa?
- August 9, 2020 Happy families
- August 16, 2020 The Orthopteran orchestra
- August 23, 2020 Backyard munchers
- August 30, 2020 Wasps galore
- September 6, 2020 The official end of summer
- September 13, 2020 Garden silks
- September 20, 2020 Late season flowers
- September 27, 2020 The war of the seasons
- October 4, 2020 The backyard harvest
- October 11, 2020 Making a living in the backyard
- October 18, 2020 The winter birdseed feeder is back in business
- October 25, 2020 Fall colors
- November 1, 2020 The end of the 2020 Orthopteran orchestra
- November 8, 2020 Fake news!
- November 15, 2020 What’s on today’s menu?
- November 22, 2020 It smells to high heaven
- November 29, 2020 Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater
- December 6, 2020 Hawk, beware!
- December 13, 2020 Life in the leafless trees
- December 20, 2020 Nearly a foot of snow
- December 27, 2020 Mass sparrow attack
- January 3, 2021 Celebrating the last day of the year
- January 10, 2021 Winter sounds
- January 17, 2021 Sparrow wars
- January 24, 2021 The daily red squirrel
- January 31, 2021 It is nothing but winter— winter, cold and savage
- February 7, 2021 A Miller B nor’Easter and a bumpus event
- February 14, 2021 Finding their voice
- February 21, 2021 The daily crow commute
- February 28, 2021 Periwinkle for tea
- March 7, 2021 Snow fleas
- March 14, 2021 All change
- Postscript
- Acknowledgments
- References