Outdoors

Nature Notes It hasn't been a spectacular bird migration, far from it, but it's been an interesting one. As this is being written, warblers and other species are still dribbling through. Star Gardener "Every gardener should gradually collect a little library of gardening books of his own . . . because such a collection, always at hand, will become part of his working equipment . . . and will be read over and over and with ever increasing appreciation," says Julia R. Cummins in her "Flower Garden Primer, or Gardening Without Tears" of 1936. Notes From Madoo Wherever I go there is something extraordinary under way. Blooms rocket and shower and growth fumes like some high aerial vapor trails.