Following today's earlier blog about daffodils having reached Falmouth, Virginia, my co-editor, Wallace Heim, sends a pic (left) from Low Wood, Cumbria:
The first daffodils appeared yesterday. They're the wild variety up here, in the brambled edge between the woods and the village, on a fairly steep, stony slope. The cultivated ones, civicly planted along the roads, haven't blossomed yet.
(Low Wood's latitude and longitude are: north: 54°15"; west: 3°2")
On the Today programme on Tuesday, they asked: Where is spring?
‘Flamin’ cockatoos’ have lost much of their habitat to bushfires. Can the
species survive?
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Two fires in 12 years wiped out all but a handful of the mature native
pines in Victoria’s Wyperfeld national park, a key breeding ground for
endangered ...
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