April 22, 2024 - As the silence of winter gives way to the beautiful sounds of spring, gently falling rain or thunderous storms; birds chirping; lawn mowers gearing up for the first time, and... what is that drilling sound on the house? It could be a beautiful Red-bellied Woodpecker!
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Week of April 22
benefit: noun; something that helps or is good, an increase in valueNASA releases first image from new space telescope
doldrums: noun; a time period with low activity or low energy, sometimes because of a negative situation
Go wild for wildflowers
lark: noun; whim, spur of the moment decision to do something fun or to have an adventure
Rosie has a spring in her step this spring
pathfinder: Select Part of speech...; one who comes before or blazes a trail for others to follow
D-Day: June 6, 1944
vehicle: noun; car, auto, truck
Festival to celebrate 80th anniversary of the Jeep
Today In History
April 26
1986: The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine had a catastrophic accident resulting in the release of radioactive particles into the atmosphere. Thousands of people from the surrounding area were permanently displaced because of the accident.1822: Library of Congress: Frederick Law Olmsted, nineteenth-century America's foremost landscape architect, was born. Son of a well-to-do Hartford, Connecticut, merchant, Olmsted spent much of his childhood enjoying rural New England scenery. Weakened eyesight forced him to abandon plans to attend Yale. Instead, young Olmsted studied engineering and scientific farming, putting his agricultural and managerial theories into practice on his own Staten Island farm.
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