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A Case of the Human Condition: Spring’s Here — And So Is That Guy With His Camera

March 19, 2010 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

  By Barbara Falconer Newhall He shows up every spring. Some years we see him. Some years we don’t. He shows up at our house just as dozens of daffodils are showing their bright, ridiculously optimistic faces all over the neighborhood and the show-offy star magnolia in our front yard is glorious with blossoms. Every year he arrives […]

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