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    Freeing Wildflower Seeds
    Tal Galton
    • 1 min

    Freeing Wildflower Seeds

    Appropriately, Turk’s cap lily seeds look like gold coins. Inside each coin is the genetic material to produce their famously large and...
    Firefly summer, foxfire fall
    Tal Galton
    • 3 min

    Firefly summer, foxfire fall

    The brightest nights in the forest are under a full moon in winter, after the leaves have fallen. On magical moonlit nights when there is...
    Monarchs and Mother-wisdom
    Tal Galton
    • 2 min

    Monarchs and Mother-wisdom

    My parents visited last week. They live in Boston, and it was the first time I’d seen them in 15 months. In recent years, with the...
    Magical Fireflies of the Blue Ridge Mountains
    Tal Galton
    • 4 min

    Magical Fireflies of the Blue Ridge Mountains

    “Hello darkness, my old friend…” — Paul Simon Like many beautiful and fantastical natural phenomena, the phosphorescence of fireflies is...
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