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old silver lightly dropped.” These words appear in “An Almanac for Moderns;” a collection of nature essays by Donald Culross Peattie.
When Lee Trott and I lived in log house on 13 wooded acres in McLean, we often heard six different thrushes singing at the end of a hot summer day. There was a slight variation among songs, enough for us to discern the difference. We would sit on the porch and listen, breathing in the serenity of the songs.
Now those woods are gone; only a few of the trees remain to shade $12 million dollar houses. The sale and development of the land was beyond my control. We only rented the house for 21 years; the summer song of the thrushes were a
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