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Follow the Flowers

If you are driving through Montana in the springtime and see poppies growing by the side of the road – vivid, yellow-orange globes of color looking out of place, like they belong on a California hillside instead of Montana, you…

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May I Serve You Soup?

Millie likes to multi task. While slicing long loaves of French bread, she cradles her cell phone on one shoulder, reassuring a parent. “We have to keep looking for any signs of fever, but the test was fine and she…

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Dancing with Butterflies

When Suzi, my Boxer-Golden Retriever mix, was a puppy, I nicknamed her Solar Cell because she loved to play for a while, then stretch out full length and soak up the sun’s rays in the back yard. One day a…

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Junior Learns Facts of Life

There are a lot of ways to get into the birdfeeder in my backyard, but I’ve got to tell you that sliding down the roof is not one of them. That didn’t stop Junior from trying. Perched on the top…

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Welcome To Saturday Mornings with Lucy

You can read Lucy’s weekly commentary here! Look for more soon.

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About Lucy

It doesn’t get any better than this. After 23 years as a writer/photographer with the New York Times Regional Group, I’m on the back porch, freelancing. This is very new, very fresh, like a honeymoon. My new business card simply…

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