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Between Our Steps: The Wasps' Nest

Between Our Steps: The Wasps' Nest

Cathy Hird shares a personal essay on the changing of the seasons.

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Mar 04, 2024
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On the branch of a maple tree reaching halfway across the road hangs a paper wasp nest. No one saw it until the leaves fell off the tree, but the nest must have been built over the summer. Busy wasps flew in and out for months while none of us noticed.

I walked under the nest every day, did not see …

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Cathy Hird
Cathy Hird lives between the escarpment and Georgian Bay, the traditional territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. Retired farmer and United Church minister, Hird writes fiction and creative non-fiction, with seven published fantasy and SciFi novels.
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