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Volume XVII, Issue 49 ~ December 3 - December 9, 2009
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Earth Journal
Autumn's Last Wildflower
Whether you live in the country or in town, calico aster is probably in the neighborhood.
Building Her Dreams
This 10-year veteran has learned through hard knocks and flimsy gingerbread how to build a champion house
Catch a holiday lift in historic Annapolis:
E-cruisers give an e-xemplary ride ...
Detectives of the deep:
Two Bay scientists shine prize-winning light ...
This Week’s Creature Feature:
Turtles join the Technological Age ...
The Bay Gardenerby Dr. Frank Gouin |
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A Fresh-Cut Christmas Tree Is a Fire-Safe Christmas Tree
Buy locally from a Christmas tree grower’s lot or cut your own
Many Christmas tree lots advertise freshly cut trees. Trees that are imported into the region could have been cut in late October or early November.
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Waiting Out the Wind
Fish are still biting, when the weather’s right
White perch are at their best this time of year — fat, delicious, still feeding up for winter and gathering in large, deep-water schools. If you’re lucky, a full cooler of one of the best eating fish on the Bay is a distinct possibility.
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Sky Watchby J. Alex Knoll |
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The Zodiac’s Dimmest
There’s more to Cancer than an indistinct crab
Were Cancer not on the ecliptic, the path upon which the sun, moon and planets appear to travel, it would likely never have become a constellation. The greatest object of interest in Cancer is no single star but the Beehive Cluster, which trails the moon Saturday night.
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Flickerings
The Twilight Saga:
New Moon
Sloppy, soapy melodrama puts the suck in vampirism with this gothic teen fantasy.
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Free Will Astrology© |
