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| The wet weather has stimulated mushrooms. I wonder if these are edible? Here kitty, kitty, kittty... |
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| Yellows of poison ivy contrast with the red sumac |
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| Old fields on the Sterling Barrens grow thickly to big bluestem, a pre-settlement grass. This is the Rob Perry place (later the Harold Brenizer Mink Farm) |
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| Turkeys had a good hatch and flocks gather to eat grasshoppers along the St Croix River Road |
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| All 6 trumpter swan cygnets made it through the summer NW of Cushing near the Hanson Farm |
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| Mom's asters have naturalized across the road from the farm |
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| The unused cow pasture across the road from the farm--the Noyes place. |
