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For some it will be their last night; they'll spend it on a bed of pollen, their senses and perhaps even their dreams—for bumblebees do dream—suffused with its scent and taste. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820733994-A4XHQ1WNHZUZ6MUF64PU/birch+bark+kenduskeag+721+nov+2020+4.jpg Photography - Paper Birch, Kenduskeag Stream The pore-streaked inner layer of an old paper birch, colored and inscribed by lichen, algae, and age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820735933-L7EFGDOHEK3M0U9Z0MEX/Blinded+Sphinx+Moth+Hog+Island.jpg Photography - Blinded Sphinx Moth, Hog Island Named for how the eyespots on their wings lack pupils, blinded sphinx moths can see perfectly well—but like most moths they are nocturnal, and so we rarely see them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820740456-AD4LY3KM164OF4FOGK9E/catbird+apple+blossoms+may+2021+721+3aa.jpg Photography - Catbird & Apple Blossoms, Bangor If catbird plumage matched their personalities, they’d be quite colorful. 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The three upright petals are said to symbolize wisdom, faith, and courage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820747351-0MUO3YR16QAGKBMXHYHH/hog+island+center+trail+forest+bokeh.jpg Photography - Pine Forest, Hog Island The feeling of a pine forest in midsummer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820746234-VHAGSUOKFTN0XQHLLRIR/hickory+tussock+blanket+september+2023+721+1b.jpg Photography - Milkweed Tussock Moth, Bangor In late summer and early autumn, milkweed tussock caterpillars leave their host plants and find a protected spot beneath fallen leaves. There they spin a cocoon felted with their own hairs and emerge as moths the following spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820745252-7ES78ZGK4UM3OXNM1MVZ/herring+school+tunk+august+2022+8b.jpg Photography - Young Alewives, Tunk Lake After alewives hatch, the young gather in schools containing thousands of fish. 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She was a good mother: Not exactly affectionate, and even a bit grouchy, but she protected her kids and taught them what they needed to know. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820744874-BK53TONSP7ADWHSUWX4Q/heron+goldenrod+pond+721a.jpg Photography - Great Blue Heron & Goldenrod, Bangor A great blue heron glimpsed through goldenrod and purple loosestrife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820751167-1KWZJEXGW1Y6NA6T7XBU/kenduskeag+eagle+october+2025+721+1b-a.jpg Photography - Bald Eagle, Kenduskeag Stream https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820751638-V9T5QHJ8EF2633APXLFX/Ladyslipper+3.jpg Photography - Pink Lady's Slipper, Bangor City Forest Blooming in late May and early June, lady’s slippers bring a fairy-tale beauty to woodland floors. It takes several years before they flower, and they may live for decades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820752870-M1BN829IS6DZD5JWNP4X/Mama+Fox+March+2026+721+1.jpg Photography - Fox, Bangor A moment’s rest in the March sun for a young fox. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820740942-TWRRNPOH7ZJBVMS2E9WZ/clematis+after+rain+august+2020+721+2.jpg Photography - Clematis, After Rain For a few weeks each summer the clematis vines that have overtaken my garden’s fences bloom. In aggregate they are spectacular, but I wanted to celebrate a single flower. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820757488-7G2S3UW23VVCNMNNB6NG/Old+Tree%2C+Norton+Island+2026+1.jpg Photography - Old Tree, Hog Island We talk about dead trees as though they had ceased to be—but all the mass they accumulated is released slowly, turned into lichen and fungi and the bodies of wood-boring insects, a fountain of new life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820754510-AB0C60X9PX6TO0I3M1LF/northern+bay+yellowlegs+september+2021+9.jpg Photography - Lesser Yellowlegs, Northern Bay Another way of thinking of a mud flat: as a battery that turns water, sunlight, and sediment into animals like this Lesser Yellowlegs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820754850-DMBACBX3X390EXN7OFY0/northern+bay+yellowlegs+september+2021+16.jpg Photography - Greater Yellowlegs, Northern Bay Another way of thinking of a mud flat: as a battery that turns water, sunlight, and sediment into animals like these Greater Yellowlegs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820743972-ADDDB6V3ZD2TI51E4W4M/frost+721+feb+2022+28.jpg Photography - Windowpane Frost The patterns formed by frost are often so organic that it feels like they must be alive. 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They also tend to eat tree sap, rotting fruit, and dung, but do consume nectar from small white flowers like these clematis blossoms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820759340-2PPET0PEN3MXQ66VFGO2/robin+autumn+721+2b.jpg Photography - Fox, Bangor When foxes run, it looks almost like they are floating—but their gaze has a palpable, earthbound force. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820760429-GCHEKBU80P0VRA7MBEE5/schoodic+sunrise+oct+2020+2.jpg Photography - Sunrise, Schoodic Peninsula There’s something about watching sunrise over the ocean: feeling that the light touching you has yet to touch the continent, that you are truly at the beginning of a new day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55aaefd9e4b0e8a77a1aba25/1790820761557-3BOWCN2AW6G83E5LY7NE/spider+fingertip+721+2a.jpg Photography - Baby Bronze Jumping Spider Though their brains are no larger than a poppy seed, jumping spiders are quite intelligent. 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