Notes From Boomerang Creek ; Dramas Large and Small Play Out On Summer Stage

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With the arrival of summer, Boomerang Creek is at once bathed in dazzling light and shrouded in shade. A walk in any direction leads to any number of distractions and little dramas. My goal might be the meadow, but I stop along the way, stunned that an array of pastel hydrangeas thriving in partial shade are as vibrant today as when they bloomed a month ago. Can such beauty last forever?

When a middling-size box turtle lumbers across the yard in my direction, I am reminded of one of nature's compelling summer dramas. It is the ancient, internal-clock-driven urge of turtles - from box to snapper - to migrate in an unwaveringly straight line no matter what lies in their path, be it a superhighway or an old stone wall.

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Notes From Boomerang Creek ; Dramas Large and Small Play Out On Summer Stage

Whenever humanly and safely possible, I assist turtles tortuously inching their way across stretches of gravel country roads and scorching hot highways traversed by cars, pickup trucks, semis, SUVs, RVs, ...

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