Chris DeWeese

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Yes, "fluffle" is a real termBy Chris DeWeese 5 hours ago Late spring is a time of new birth, of little ones making their way into the world, and one of the best parts of the season (in my opinion) is getting little reminders that, regardless of what we're doing, the cycle of life keeps on running around us. For Morning Brief reader Bob Seymour of Kutztown, Pennsylvania, discovering a fluffle (yes, that's the technical term) of bunnies in his backyard was quite the moving (literally) surprise.

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No, this isn't an advertisement for Lord of the Rings: The Hunt For GollumBy Chris DeWeese 2 hours ago (Salvatore Allegra/Anadolu via Getty Images)No, this is not an advertisement for the Lord Of The Rings prequel that everyone is talking about, but one has to admit that Italy's Mount Etna can play a pretty good Mount Doom when it needs to.

1 day ago | weather.com | Chris DeWeese

In the Southeast, where I live, a coating of fine green-yellow pollen seems to cover the entire landscape each spring. You start seeing cars coated with enough pollen that you can read the messages (usually “Clean Me!”) written by the fingers of passing teenagers, and when it rains, there’s enough pollen that fine lines of it mark the places where streams of water collected like wrack lines left on a beach behind high tide.

1 day ago | weather.com | Chris DeWeese

Torrential rainfall turned roads to mud and delayed a pivotal charge for two long hoursBy Chris DeWeese 2 hours ago Rain played an essential role in The Battle of Jackson, which was fought 162 years ago today in Jackson, Mississippi, as part of the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. After the hard-fought Union victory at The Battle of Raymond on May 12, Major General Ulysses S. Grant decided that the Confederate army led by General Joseph E.

2 days ago | yahoo.com | Chris DeWeese

In the Southeast, where I live, a coating of fine green-yellow pollen seems to cover the entire landscape each spring. You start seeing cars coated with enough pollen that you can read the messages (usually “Clean Me!”) written by the fingers of passing teenagers, and when it rains, there’s enough pollen that fine lines of it mark the places where streams of water collected like wrack lines left on a beach behind high tide.