Hello there, little Woolly Bear. What are you doing out here in the snow?

Our caterpillars, ourselves

D. Ziner reports: “I try my best not to mess with Mother Nature. I don’t feed Her wild kids, and even though it sometimes seems cruel, I don’t interfere when Her kids get really wild and eat one another.

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“It’s not fair when a clown dies. Or when love dies. Or a child dies.”

In memoriam

Tim Torkildson writes: “Clowns are not supposed to die. They get walloped with mallets and blown up with large red sticks of dynamite, but they’re supposed to just run around after the fatal blow and then wave merrily at the crowd.

“It’s not fair when a clown dies. Or when love dies. Or a child dies.

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EXTRA! January’s pictures (encore)

These are the pictures you could have seen — and, we hope, did see — in January’s Bulletin Boards.

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