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Swallowtail comes from gallery of Marilyn Blanton

Featuring Master Naturalist photographers—

flora and fauna as you see them

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Into the Reading Nook—share your treasures

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This comes from Don Fikes’s recommendations at last meeting. He stated that he has not yet finished either book but so far is finding both of them fascinating. 1. The Most Perfect Thing by Tim Birkhead. It is everything you wanted to know about ‘eggs’ but were afraid to ask ‐ eggs are strong enough to hold the weight of an incubating parent yet delicate enough for a young chick to break through.

From Betty Zajac:

2. Evolution Underground by Anthony J Mar-tin is about what goes on underground. Martin is a Trace Fossil Specialist and studies burrowing animals.

Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman that explores the brilliance of birds found all over the world.

Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new re-

search, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of in-

telligence. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the

newly discovered brilliance of birds. Read more at Amazon.com

Nancy Waldo recommended:

1. The Hidden Forest

A biography Of a Ecosystem

By Jon R. Luoma

2. The Cast Iron Forest

A Natural & Cultural History of

the Cross Timbers.

By Richard V. Francaviglia

From the leaves at the top of the canopy to the insects living deep beneath the soil, a forest is a complete, unified ecosystem. Each event, from the growth of a single sap-ling to a cataclysmic fire, is critical to the life of the forest as organism. Read more at Amazon.com

This book describes the natural environment of the Cross Tim-

bers and interprets the role that people have played in trans-

forming the region.

https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/fracas

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What ’s on the other side?—Window Photography

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f my fo

rmer self!

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