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Along creeks and water .1 courses, alder shrubs are the most delicate rusty color from dangling, pollen-heavy male ' flowers.
Mourning doves are singing the song that earns them their name, though I have never heard any sadness or sounds of “mourning'’ in their calls. A friend telephoned to say tree swallows have returned to swoop and dive for flying insects at his home. t Signs of spring multiply, yet none touched my heart and raised my spirits as did the two tiny flowers of spring beauty among last year's' brown leaves in the wildflower garden.
<' Virginia naturalist John Trott welcomes reader mail care of this newspaper: P.O. Box 59, Washington, Va., 22747.
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