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Queen Anne's Lace often has one or two tiny purple blossoms among the white ones.

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Natural history

Photo by Thom Smith

Natural history in the Berkshires is diverse, where in the marble valleys between the Taconics and the Green Mountains shelter many plants and animals.

A monarch butterfly lights on a zinnia in a Berkshire yard.
Photo by Thom Smith
Outdoors

Monarch butterflies migrate 2,500 miles north to New England each year

July 10, 2017
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When I was a boy, about 7 or 8 years old, our family sometimes picnicked at a rest area along Route 7 in New Ashford. Behind the picnic area back then lay a hillside meadow where I would chase butterflies and grasshoppers about for hours at a time. The hill is […]

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Azaleas bloom vividly at Pittsfield State Forest.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Outdoors

Catching Azaleas in full blow at Pittsfield State Forest — BTW column

June 12, 2017
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I haven’t caught the time exactly right in years, but on Friday the whole hillside was in bloom. The azaleas are open in Pittsfield State Forest, where the Taconic Crest Trail crosses the ridge above berry pond. You can walk through, but I drove up in the afternoon. You wind up […]

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