{"id":3148,"date":"2011-04-07T16:01:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T21:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2011-04-07T16:09:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T21:09:18","slug":"more-signs-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=3148","title":{"rendered":"More Signs of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Growing up in central KS, I read every nature themed book I could gather.\u00a0 Most in those days featured natural history subjects from eastern North America–a few from the west.\u00a0 I longed to see the Smokey mountains in the spring, walk along the C and O canal, or see warblers dripping from trees during migration.\u00a0 Imagine my surprise\u00a0 and elation when I identified my first bright yellow male goldfinch as a 12 year old in my own backyard—I thought those birds were “back East”.\u00a0 Of course as my experiences grew I came to realize that much of what was discussed in nature themed books was indeed part of my own Kansas environment.\u00a0 Still until I enrolled at KU in 1969, I had never seen any of the “woodland ephemerals” so talked about in any coverage of spring in eastern deciduous woodlands.\u00a0 I saw my first ephemerals in my second spring at KU in Baldwin Woods.\u00a0 I ritually, return every spring to check on these populations of small, early wildflowers.\u00a0 Their appearance each year grounds me.\u00a0 Here’s some recent photos:<\/p>\n

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False Rue Anemone<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rue Anemone<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dutchman's Breeches<\/p><\/div>\n

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Erythronium albidum<\/p><\/div>\n

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Spring Beauty<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Growing up in central KS, I read every nature themed book I could gather.\u00a0 Most in those days featured natural history subjects from eastern North America–a few from the west.\u00a0 I longed to see the Smokey mountains in the spring, walk along the C and O canal, or see warblers dripping from trees during migration.\u00a0
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