Best Of August, 2026
Two memorable highlights from August. One was encountering a bear on the North Country National Scenic Trail. The other was seeing many ruby-throated hummingbirds feasting on spotted touch-me-nots.
Crex Meadows Late Afternoon
Who else to play Mr. Micawber than W.C. Fields?
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“Gentlemen,” returned Mr. Micawber, “do with me as you will! I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants—I beg your pardon; I should have said the elements.”
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“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”
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“Something will turn up.”
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— Mr Micawber from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens