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William Morrow
(2017-04-04)
400 pages
ISBN: 978-0062499950

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Not So Silent Spring, or Summer for that Matter

July 11, 2010 by Ellen Herrick

Listen here, Rachael Carson, it’s not that I disagree with you about the effect pesticides have on our environment and future generations. No, I am 100 percent with you on that. It’s just that I have earwigs the size of Smart Cars and they are about to lift my entire raised-bed cutting garden and carry it home to their nest. Now, I picture that nest as a dark, stalactite dripping cave where giant earwigs in evening clothes recline on red velvet couches sipping silver goblets of hydrangea leaf nectar while smaller earwigs gyrate on a down-lit dance floor. Petals nibbled from my dahlias decorate every surface.

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Filed Under: Cape Cod, flowers Tagged With: dahlias, earwigs, flowers, pesticides, Rachel Carson

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