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Suzie Nakasian alerted me to these nice activities ahead for this weekend.      Ed

TUESDAY MAY 19: ”A Carless Carleton?: What would it take to get us there?”
A Community Discussion, and Transit Information Fair
Tuesday May 19th Noon – 2 p.m.
Leighton Hall, Room 305 (A Pizza Lunch will be served)
By focusing on the goal of a Carleton without cars, we hope to shed light on the current transportation situation at Carleton [...]

Food Truth Week at Carleton -
Please join Carleton College’s Food Truth and Farm Club for the following events during Food Truth Week at Carleton:
WEDNESDAY, May 13  7:30pm Libe Athanaeum.
Back to the Land, and Forward: Northfield’s Food landscape past, present, future.
Come hear from local farmers Dave Legvold, Kathy Zeman, Rae Rusnak & Regi Haslett-Marroquin about Northfield’s [...]

I thought you might like a little slideshow of flowers currently on display around our neighborhood.   The Scilla offers one of the best shows;    it seems to grow everywhere, even where grass won’t, and the show goes on for a few weeks.  (Click on photo to enlarge;    then click on “slideshow” to set the timing.)      [...]

Guess what dropped in on us this afternoon?    This adorable, tiny songbird, a female golden-crowned kinglet   (Regulus satrapa).     I think it would be nice to have people send me their own favorite photos of birds in their neighborhood;    we can make a lovely slideshow.     Ed