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‘Rescue Irises’ Now Dazzle With Colors
Like a racehorse at the gate, the blue beauty leapt up overnight, desperate to be seen as the grandest of the flowerbed. I hadn’t seen its kind in years.
It bloomed two weeks before the others.
This looks to be a wonderful spring for irises. Last fall I took desperate measures, thinning and mo ...
6,500-Foot Lodge Atop Mt. LeConte Packs In Hikers
ALUM CAVE, Tenn. — Two and a half miles up a steep mountain trail Saturday I distinctly heard a full-throated preacher hard at work. We rounded a bend in time to witness the final minutes of the renewal vows of the Rogers couple from Mt. Sterling, Ky., on their 25th anniversary.
They kissed. W ...
Birthday Birds Arrive to Fill Martin Gourds
The 30-year quest is won. Following the precise conditions spelled out by experts Wade and Connie Beauchamp of Lewisville in our March 28 issue, I erected a four-gourd purple martin contraption on a 15-foot pole at my parents’ farm.
Five days later, I spotted two pairs of birds twittering abou ...