Sarasota News Leader
December 21, 2012
morants, herons, egrets and anhingas jockey
for space in the trees that line the lake. By
nightfall, more than a thousand shore birds
have roosted in the trees and shrubbery, just
blocks from busy Beneva Road.
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bush and salvia, attracting dozens of pollinators. Butterflies ��� zebra longwings, giant sulfurs and tiny skippers ��� and hundreds of bees
flit about in great clouds of moving color. Like
the tree swallows on the wing, they lift our
spirits, and we sit here feeling at one with the
At my nursery, a forgotten corner has revertworld. %
ed to a glorious chaos of climbing asters, fire
